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Originally Posted by Toxaris
I personally prefer the Sigil one. It has the focus on much used characters for which support in the readers is pretty much garantueed. It seems that Calibre gives the complete Unicode list, but default support is probably none existing. That can give the wrong impression.
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I noticed Calibre's much greater selection awhile ago but had forgotten (I primarily use Sigil). I just assumed that if you selected a character from a font that isn't standard, Calibre would embed that font for you - or at least tell you that you should and/or provide a little wizard to do so. Looking back I see that was probably naive.
Speaking of little wizards, has anyone thought of an "embed font" button that allows the user to select an external font file/family, imports those files into Sigil, and creates the proper @font-face reference in the CSS?? Seems like that would be a fairly simple combination of existing functionality (add existing files, paste clips) that would smooth the path for all users from novice to expert. It's a fairly common question for noobs, and would save several minutes for the rest.
The only difficulty I could see in creating the code would be determining if the file was normal/bold/italic/bolditalic and applying the proper css. Is there some easy way of determining which properties a font file includes?