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Originally Posted by Psymon
Here, I'll include a screen shot -- see the attachment here -- of one of my pages (actually two pages, of course), as it looks in iBooks. I'm using a digitized period font, of course, to pull this off, embedded in the epub, that has tons of ligatures and stuff, both in roman and italic.
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Oh yeah, the instant I saw your image and read your explanations, I remember you posting about it in another topic (I have your sample EPUB sitting right on my MobileRead folder in a "Psymon" subfolder). Isn't that the same exact one Hitch warned about marketshare?
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Originally Posted by Psymon
And just to show you how screwy the coding is for this, here's the HTML for the selection of text that you see in that screenshot...
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Any reason you are not using CSS for those nowraps?
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[...] <span class="nowrap">appere„</span> [...]
Code:
.nowrap {
white-space: nowrap;
}
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Originally Posted by Psymon
And this latter brings up another issue with trying to do what I'm doing. Typesetting in that period goes far beyond the use of ligatures. For example, the use of the letter "u" versus "v" had nothing to do with their sound, but rather their placement within the word (similarly for the long-ess).
- words beginning with "u" or "v" would be typeset starting with "v", eg. "vse", "vp", "vnion", etc.
- "u" was used everywhere else in the word, except the beginning, hence we end up with "vniuerse" (universe), etc.
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Ugh, this brings back bad reminders of a book I finished converting a month ago. The author was quoting a lot of books from the late 1500s-1600s:
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<p class="negindenttwo">[<i>a</i>] euerie man is desirous to make ouer money by exchange, and that money which should be employed vpon the commodities of the realme, is deliuered by exchange to the great hindrance of the vent and aduancement of our home commodities: and yet the forrein commodities not any way therefore sold the better cheap<a href="#fn51" id="ft51">[51]</a>; [and]</p>
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I mostly updated the 'i' -> 'j' and the 'v' -> 'u' just to make it more readable, as those were quite jarring:
vse -> use
iust -> just
deliuer -> deliver
aduance -> advance
vp -> up
ouer -> over
aboue -> above
loue -> low
obiection -> objection
vs -> us
giuen -> given
obserued -> observed
euerie -> every