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Originally Posted by Jellby
Did you try adding something like this to the css (from the link I gave above)?
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Um, I apologize for my utter ignorance, but I have no idea what any of that stuff is! I mean, I could take your word for it and just plop it in, but I confess it's all gobbledygook to me.
As for the long-ess, it's not supposed to be used "everywhere", but as with "u" and "v" it has to do with where it appears in the word: long-ess is used at the beginning and middle of words, whereas the regular "s" is used when it's the last character in a word.
In any case, I think if I just went through the entire "olde" text and simply substituted the characters/ligatures I want, that should work out okay -- and as far as searchability goes, well, as we discussed in this thread earlier the spellings in that "olde" half of my book are so screwy that I'd be extremely surprised if anyone was specifically searching for particular words. And only half the book is "olde", of course, the first half is the exact same text, but in modern english, and there would be no problem for anyone to find search results via that.
Apart from that, I threw together a couple of screenshots of
all the ligatures in that font. Each ligature is on a separate line, of course -- if you think of it like a "table" (which it isn't, but whatever), then the first column is what the ligature is supposed to represent, then the second and third columns, respectively, are for the roman and italic ligs. I've included here screenshots showing what works in iBooks (all the ligs!) and what works in ADE (only some).
It's a shame that not all of the ligs work in ADE, but there's enough of them that I could probably still "fancy up" my text reasonably well and create an okay version that'll work in that platform -- which, of course, is
great news!
ADDENDUM: Oops! After posting this I just realized that I missed a bunch of other ligs/alts that were in the italic font (like "st" and a couple variants of "k", etc.) -- I'll re-do these screenshots and re-post them... back in a bit...