Thread: no small caps?
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Old 03-10-2021, 04:19 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
Hard to say more without having the font on-hand to take a look at its feature table, though.

One thing you can try is ripping the font out of the ePub and installing it as a KOreader font, to see if the behavior is specific to how embedded fonts are loaded or if it's specifically an issue with this font
Good point. I analyzed the font. It weighs only 15k, so it's a subsetting and, looking at the characters inside, I don't see the small caps (so I have to correct myself: the font I see reading the ebook is Simoncini except the small caps texts). My guess is that Adobe, Apple or Google, when they realize that an embedded font does not have subsetting related to a feature, such as small caps, they fallback on the second font. Not KOReader: if it does not find the small caps it does not fallback and fails to render the property indicated in the CSS.

It seems to me a KOReader bug: the CSS states to use Simoncini with small caps or fallback to Serif with small caps if Simoncini with small caps is not present. KOReader uses Simoncini without small caps and does not fallback to Serif with small caps.
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