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Old 08-23-2016, 02:22 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
The problem with embedding a flourish font is that many readers will fail to use the font with the result in a simple alphanumeric character being displayed using the reader's default font and will just look like some coding error as it will be meaningless.
It depends on which character is mapped to the fleuron. If it's e.g. * or ~ it may look plain, but not meaningless. If it's ❦ it may even be appropriate (but it may look bad if the default font does not have it).
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