Hello folks!
A company converted half of a job to ePub format, and when they quit, it was handed to me. Things had been humming along ok until a couple of the books started using a Hebrew font. So I fiercely read up on how to embed fonts. The only problem is that the Hebrew font used to create the original book (in InDesign) is not easy to work with. From my testing, it will not embed. (Here it is:
http://cl.ly/1m1e0N1E1k2S) And when I use a different Hebrew font which can be embedded,
it shows up like this.
But now I'm confused, as I look over the work they had done previously. For example, when I explode their ePub in Calibre and check out their text, I find:
Code:
O verbo hebraico, זגר (rāgăz), significa ou ser agitado pela ira, ou pelo temor.
So that three letter word is good Hebrew, so I looked up their xhtml file:
Code:
O verbo hebraico, <span class="simbolo">זגר</span>
And their freaking CSS file has only:
Code:
span.simbolo {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
The heck? How did they get that Hebrew text to show up? They worked off of the Adobe InDesign publisher's file just like I am, and did they simply go copy/paste the Hebrew word directly to the ePub files? That would have taken forever — because Hebrew words are all over the place!
I've run laps around the web looking for a break but haven't found a fix. Any help is appreciated! I know I'm missing something — I just don't know what yet.