Quote:
Originally Posted by Jellby
Why not use the character map to copy-paste whatever you want?
|
Much larger font size (I raise the font on the Wikipedia/Fileformat page HUGE, so it is very easy to see the accent characters).
Also, having them all organized in a table format by accent is MUCH easier than using the character map.
Plus if you do not know the exact name of the accent, but you know the LOOK of the accent, this can help. I have zero knowledge of Greek, but using the accent table on Wikipedia helped me figure out all the characters in the actual text of the book.
Quote:
Originally Posted by yucca
I suspect it is a font issue rather than Unicode support problem. The readers probably interpret the character data properly, they just fail to display it. E.g., Adobe Digital Editions (on Win 7) shows the Greek characters in your epub OK, except that they are too slanted, but this is probably a feature of the font it is using. (Greek letters have often been designed in italic style.)
|
I did not know that some fonts already render these greek characters as pre-italics... in all the ones I tested, they were normal (unitalics).
I try to emulate the original book as closely as possible (so I made the .greek class font-style: italic).
I will have to take a closer look at font embedding more closely and do some more tests when I get some free time. Maybe it was just a mistake on my part in the implementation.
I tried to dabble in font embedding many months ago, when I was trying to create a font with just a SINGLE character in it, and assigning the Chi Rho to display in that font:
☧
Quote:
Originally Posted by theducks
 I made a @fonts template clip where all I need to do is name the Family and fill out the font file (and adjust for bold and italic if needed) |
Genius, I always forget to add helpful Clips such as this. I will definitely add lots of commonly used CSS to my Clips section now.