[keress]

I've seen articles cautioning against embedding fonts -- articles eight years old. I'm trying to get a feel for what the current wisdom is. I was excited to learn that epub simply uses HTML and CSS. I've been writing both pretty much on a daily basis since 1999. I have a novel written in ms word. I used Kindle to make an ebook, but now I want to use epub. It seems to be offering much better creative control of my material.

I converted the .docx to HTML and then spent FAR too much time taking out all that crappy ms word code. I'll look at a better converter in the future. Any suggestions? I want everything gone except all italics, bolding, links, etc. All those things I'd have to read the whole thing word-for-word to rebuild.

The print version of the book is using two fonts I really like. They're both from Google fonts (TTF fonts). I did all the embedding. It looks great in Sigil and Chrome epub reader. I even got some drop caps to display perfectly with just a minimum of CSS styling.

Then I tried viewing it in Adobe Digital Editions. I'm very disappointed. It's rendering fonts in funky ways. I have a slight variant for the first paragraph in a chapter. It just has no initial indent. And there's a span styling a Drop Cap. In Adobe, that whole paragraph is rendered as bold. No drop cap is displayed. I thought maybe it was getting the 'bold' idea from the drop cap, but that doesn't use a bold, so it makes no sense. It seems Adobe can't handle a simple 'span.'

I don't get it. I'm using very basic, solid CSS tags. All weird MS Word stuff is gone. Why can't Adobe read basic CSS?