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Originally Posted by mrmikel
As usual, it would be bad manners, at least, to have your beautiful work fall on its face badly in some devices.
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Surely the lack of manners should be ascribed device makers who apparently care ***-all about standards compliance? And to what extent should we let us be held back in exploring the potential of e-books because of such negligence?
Anyhow, using alternative fonts shouldn't be that risky – after all, it must be a very poor device which doesn't fall back to standard font if it can't handle the specified one.
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As long as you are aware of the risk of turning your ebook into a 90's webpage or a powerpoint presentation, that's fine.
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You mean like
this version of the Gettysburg address?
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Another problem of using different fonts, is that you are preventing the user from reading the book in his/her preferred font.
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Yup, I know... But why, I've never been able to figure out. I'm very fond of Jos Buivenga's Fontin semi-serifed font, and I like to use it in my books, but it's a shame that I have to force my readers to use it, and not have it as an extra alternative. Go figure...