[Psymon]

Originally Posted by Jellby

With FontForge it is relatively easy (if anything can be said to be "easy" with FontForge) to take the ligatures from the "alt" font, insert them in some free private slot of the regular font, and add the ligature definition when needed. Or move the glyphs around. With free fonts, that's all you need. (That, and change the kernings of the moved glyphs, I guess.)

But that's what the font(s) that I'm using already do, and about that you yourself wrote in a previous message:

I'm sorry, but that code is wrong. You are using a font with non-standard mapping, and then some symbol codes for different characters. This is disallowed by the ePub spec:

"Fonts must not provide mappings for Unicode characters that would change the semantics of the text (e.g. mapping the letter "A" to a biohazard symbol)"

So I may as well just stick with what I've got! After all, it works great, looks great, not to mention there was an enormous amount of work/time that went into creating it -- if I was to change the font, I'd pretty much have to start all over, from scratch.

If the fonts are designed by someone knowledgeable, you could contact the author and ask whether he would mind doing that himself, or if he'd oppose your doing that for your specific needs.

But I already have a beautiful free font.

I don't have time for a full search now, but:
Heuristica has long-s, and a number of f* and ſ* ligatures (but no ct, ſt)

Cool, thanks! I've downloaded it (haven't unzipped and looked at it yet, though), but I'd really miss those latter two ligs. :/

Espinosa Nova apparently has long-s and ligatures (the Regular font is free, but I don't know if embedding is allowed)

Cool again! But I need italics, too. That regular does look like it has a whole ton of really nice ligs, though...

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/estudio...ar/glyphs.html

...but like I said, I need the italics, too. :/ Looks like a very, very nice font set, though! What I prefer about the JSL font over this one, though, is the somewhat "distressed" look of it (the former) -- it actually looks like it was made with metal type, with all its imperfections. The Espinoza Nova one looks a bit too smooth and "perfect" -- it looks digital.

OK, then it might be in even older times, or in a different language, but I'm pretty sure I have seen words broken across lines without hyphens as a normal case. I've just checked the Gutenberg Bible now, and it has "="-like symbols for broken words, so it might have been somewhere else...

Yeah, it's possible that some printers did that (break words at the end of a line but not insert a hyphen), but off-hand I don't recall seeing it before -- it certainly wasn't the norm, that's for sure.

And yeah, with fraktur-style ("blackletter") fonts, like in the Gutenberg Bible, the hyphen did generally look like an "="-sign, but with Roman and Italic the double-line was reduced to just a single "dash".

Thanks very much for your input! You haven't quite changed my mind on anything, but you've certainly gotten me thinking a lot! I do think that I should be okay, as I've done it -- all I can do is finish it up, as I've been doing it, wait for my application with iTunes Connect to get approved (still waiting since I applied last week), and then load it up and see what happens, I guess.