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Originally Posted by roycymru
Thanks for your reply David. Excuse my ignorance, but I think I am missing something. I thought by just by renaming a .epub book file to .kepub.epub and then sending this file to the Kobo it would magically display any Kobo Nickel italicised text as italics not bold. This is obviously a naievity on my part.
However your reference to font tester does imply that somehow it is possible to display italicised text correctly in .epub books on the Kobo, using the Kobo Nickel font. Or am I again wrong? If this is possible, can you please explain in detail how to do this, as Kobo Nickel is my favourite font.
Thank you
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My preferred font for my Glo is JSWolf's modified version of Charis SIL. I find that font very readable and it has excellent diacritical and other special character support. It also offered a darker type which I found useful in poorer lighting.
As for italic support, ever since Kobo went to obfuscated fonts, Adobe's Reader Mobile used for rendering .epubs has had issues with some fonts. Since the font obfuscation uses Adobe's technology, I'm not sure whether to blame Kobo, Adobe or simply to scream "a plague on both your houses!".
While you can simply rename a .epub to .kepub.epub to use the Kobo renderer, you will need to make some other changes such as adding the cover-property directive unless you like see all covers displayed as a dot. Since I've done this with relatively few files, I've made the changes manually. There is a Calibre plugin by jgoguen which will make the changes for you when the books are copied to your Kobo in cooperation with the Kobo driver.
I've only recommended the renaming for test purposes so you can get a quick and dirty look at the differences between the handling of .epub and .kepub.epub. When I was looking at the differences between the two renderers, I simply modified my test file and now have a .epub and .kepub.epub version on my Kobo.
The font tester is a simple epub file I created to allow me to see the various styles/weights/special characters without having to search for them. A variant with added support for testing various languages and images is also kicking around -- DomesticExtremis is the creator.
Regards,
David