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Originally Posted by AlanHK
In this case, these aren't headings, but some words in a <p> paragraph. So they have to be spans.
And so in Kindle you have to have "Publisher Font" to see them.
And so the body font becomes sans unless I style it otherwise.
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Yeah, okay, we run into that also. HOWEVER, in Kindle, even w/o Publisher font selected, you should still see what's in the spans (in the KF8's, obviously).
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Blame the author who liked to play with typography.
(That's why I was doing this book, as an exercise to see if I could make the effects work in ebook as they did on paper, without resorting to images of text.)
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I feel ya. I've got one in right now with 10 bloody fonts, 8 of them handwriting. If you're hearing a weird noise in the troposphere, that's me screaming.
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But in mobi you can't change fonts at all (aside from serif/sans), I thought? Anyway, not too concerned about mobi format, though would not break it unnecessarily.
I have 21 spans in the book, most of them to make a standing cap.
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I do not go along with the Calibre-terminology of "AZW3" and "MOBI." The dual-file that we produce, for Amazon, is a MOBI file. Is it a KF7 mobi? No. It's a dual mobi, containing both KF7 and KF8, but it still has a .mobi file extension, and thus, I'm not going to call it something else. When I say MOBI, I mean a dual mobi. If I am discussing a KF7 mobi, I'll call it a KF7 or KF7 MOBI. I wasn't discussing KF7 with you, because obviously the topic of fonts is irrelevant in that context.
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I do follow that "rule" myself. I don't use spans to style headings. Very rarely an entire paragraph of any kind.
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Yeah. Too many spans=too many headaches, on too many fronts.
I'm not sure what's causing your issue, but the spanned font
should be working. Try making the book with only a single chapter--for speed in troubleshooting--and see if the spanned font text suddenly shows up in the right font. I've seen oddities like that happen, too, where I had to bracket navigate a problem, removing chapters, etc. to get to the coding that was causing the issue.
If you don't set a body font, does the spanned font work? I don't mean, selecting it on the device--I mean, if you completely remove the font setting on the body CSS, does it work then?
Hitch