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Old 06-06-2013, 03:21 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Yup, as I said, it's inelegant. But if it's a single quote (one-off) then it is A solution which avoids embedding and subsetting a font for only a few characters.

I've seen it used when inserting a different character/equation etc. within a sentence. Personally, I wouldn't use it in a sentence; I think that looks horrible when you change the background color unless the device/app supports transparent background, but it is OK if it is used like a blockquote.
In the eBook Mr. Panumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, it had one line that was in a mirrored font. I embedded Charis SIL and modified the regular version to be mirrored. I did this so the mirrored text would look good. I did subset it and it wasn't that much bigger.
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