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Originally Posted by yucca
There is however a clumsy way, using ligature characters such as U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI, which you can enter in XHTML as fi (or as such, character fi). There is a small set of such characters, but they work reliably in modern software provided that the font being used contains that character, in its correct position. (Many fonts contain such ligatures but possibly in wrong code positions.)
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@yucca
Thanks for your explanations. I tried this "clumsy way", forcing the use of the required glyph (if present) using fi and it does indeed work for my fancy font with Sigil, ADE 1.7 and... yes, Kobo Glo!
I understand that it is probably not advisable to use it for body text, since on most modern readers, the ability of changing fonts is a common feature and that some fonts may not have these ligatures. So the missing glyphs would probably be replaced by blanks or ? flags...
But for my limited purpose (lowercase title in a non-replaceable font) it seems to work fine. Where could I find a list of these ligatures?
I can think also of another use. Sometimes, in a book we find a small quote (only one... ) in, say, Greeks characters. I realize that these characters could also be summoned this way (screenshot). If they are missing in the font, provided we wrote something like:
body (font-family:"My_special_font"; serif), they would also probably be displayed with the serif replacement font.
