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Originally Posted by PHigby
Doitsu, I'm not reporting a bug, but I'm asking if in an ePub we can choose how the character is display using a specific font.
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Stupid question:
Which Gentium font are you running there? I've reviewed Gentium Book; Gentium Basic, and I do not see the glyph to which you refer. Which Gentium face(s) contain(s) this glyph? Yes, the italic face has an open-tail, but the regular and bold do not. That's why you are not seeing them.
(Unrelated comment--this is why you have to be careful when you choose fonts; many "free" fonts have this sort of typographic inconstancy, where you have loop tails for two faces and an open-tail for the other. Yes, creating an italic loop tail is harder, and it's not uncommon to see this very shift, in some fonts, but....)
So, unfortunately,
you've wasted a lot of time, as the open-tail figure
doesn't exist in the regular or bold faces, unless it's in a Gentium variant I haven't seen yet. Unless you pay someone to create an open-tail Regular and Bold version of the letter and edit the basic font and replace the double-loop with the open-tail...there isn't any way to get there from here.
Here's the thing--and we run into this all the time when we have a customer that asks us for a specific (but uncommon) character, like the Vietnamese characters that are typically replaced with more-common variants, in print/digital these days--you
can use that particular glyph (if it's an alternate). BUT...if the book is then read on a device that
doesn't honor embedded fonts, or the customer switches the font to something else, the likelihood is that this other font won't have that specific glyph, and then you get the dreaded small box with an X in it, to display something that isn't there.
Offered FWIW. This is why, for the record, I asked you about what fonts you'd embedded and how you called them. To restate, you're asking the device(s) or reader(s) to display characters in Regular and Bold faces that don't exist IN the font you're using.
Hitch