[gdutoit]

I want to make an epub of a book that contains 30-odd small icons used throughout the text. (It's a wine guide, and the icons indicate things like the rating of the wine, eco-friendliness, good value, and so on.)

I made special font used in the print version so that the icons are simply part of the text. But in the epub version I don't think it will work that way. I tried embedding and using the font, but it didn't work on ipad.

I suppose it would work to make bitmaps of the characters, but that too will be quite a business: the book uses a different color for highly rated wines, and when the icons appear in those paragraphs, they have to be in the color of the text. And some are reversed out of a colored background. So I'll have to make a bitmap version of each in three colors, and then insert the right color jpeg in the right paragraph. All this is possible, though cumbersome (it's a 600-page book) via regex, but it would be so much simpler if the font option could work.

Any ideas?