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Jellby · 11-03-2013, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psymon

And yeah, I agree, my best bet is to find a font that will at least work reasonably okay for that "olde" part of my book -- but it is a bummer that that JSL font seems to be the only one out there that'll do what I actually want it to do (i.e. look the way I want it to look). :/

Maybe one from The Fell Types. They appear to have long-s and fancy ligatures (properly encoded), along with other nice features.

Is the attached image enough? The code includes simply:

Code:

<p class="big olde PI">Thou apperest in my thouwts so offen of lait and I can
nowth healpe bwt thynke hauw vniqwe thou hauef becom, hauw <i>eccepcionall</i> 
ytt hast aull bine in gyttynge to kno thee. Thou art sempylly that rayre kynde
of parrsen oan sild metes in a lyfetyme, that swmme newyr mete; they respeck, 
they fornness and warmthe that I feel seem to hauef becom ane affeccion of
mystickal proporcions, whythe a deppyt that reches to they vary coore and brethe
of my Sawle. For they forst tyme in my lyfe I no longar nide to tallk of whot
hys poscibell, of whot <i>coold</i> by, for whythe thee euere thouwt that entres
my mynd as I penne those wordes hys a soung of pres, a celibracion and a
thannkesgeuyn for whot sempylly <i>hys,</i> for whot whe aulredy do shar so
ioyefolly betwhene ws.</p>

[By the way, you have alt="I" in that initial capital, it should be alt="T".]

(full code here:)

Spoiler:

The image is from a PDF created with Prince, which supports activating OpenType features through custom CSS (font-variant: prince-opentype(hist, liga, dlig);). Hopefully, iBooks and other ePub readers has (or will in a not-too-far future) similar support. See here for more information about CSS and OpenType.

If that works for you, the even better news is that the fonts have an open licese, so you can modify and adapt them as you want (you could disable some ligatures, modify some kerning, etc.).