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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Did you embed both regular and bold Bengali fonts? If not, you won't be able to display bold text.
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You're absolutely right, I did forget to embed the Bold font.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
BTW, I'm somewhat surprised that you're still testing your book with ADE. I thought that I had established in this post that ADE does not support Bengali text.
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True. Inspite of having the font installed on my system the TOC and the cover (where I only had the title and author in Bangla) were displaying boxes. However, by embedding the font and using "!important" with the font-family declaration in the stylesheet, it seems the Bangla font is displaying correctly, including glyphs, in the actual text of the book. Strange, I know! I've posted a screenshot of a preliminary test file... do take a look.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
you can use the title attribute in Sigil to have Sigil use a number instead of the heading text when generating the NCX TOC.
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This is an option I hadn't considered; I'll give it a shot. As seanos suggested, an html TOC is also an option, I suppose, although its not a very tidy solution...
Another thing I've figured out is that I may have to write separate epub files for different readers. For example, Aldiko on my android phone displays the ligatures incorrectly in the title and TOC... the text is fine if I use the font embedding trick I mentioned above. I assume this is because my HTC phone doesn't support Bangla natively. However, the same test file displays everything perfectly in Aldiko on my friend's Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.
The testing process is going to have to be long and extensive...
@Jellby: I did what you suggested. Since I want iBooks to display the title and author in Bangla on the top of each page, I tested and found that iBooks displayed the latter entry. Unfortunately, when I search for the book using iBook's search function, it doesn't show up.
Could you elaborate about the writing system? I can google it if I know what I'm looking for!
Thanks for all the inputs...
Nabodita