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Old 06-08-2020, 07:04 PM   #33
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It's too late. Even if Adobe was to support small caps, it would not be advisable to use it in CSS for a lot of Readers because there are too many older versions of RMSDK/ADE out there where it's not supported. For example, Sony Readers and Kobo. Sony Readers will never be updated and Kobo probably not.
All Kobos are quite happy to render font-variant:small-caps; as long as your book is a kepub (i.e. everything Kobo sells). The small-caps will be 'simulated' from the font currently in use rather than a true small-caps font.

I wouldn't be surprised if Kindles do the same in at least one (maybe more) of the Amazon book formats.

Kobos are certainly able to display true small-caps by using the industry standard method of embedding a suitable font in the book. I'd hope Kindles would be the same, but I don't know.

There are tricks you can use on a Kobo (kepub or epub) to avoid font embedding by referencing a sideloaded true small-caps font with suitable CSS. It's probably more effort than most users want to be bothered with.
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