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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also there is curiosity as to WHY Twain and Warner had what must be an Irish quotation and where did they get it?
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Did you check the other chapters? It has a few quotations in much more obscure languages/scripts. I think it was a kind of parody on "serious" books that find it necessary to insert quotations in (typically) Latin or Greek. I haven't read the book, though.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Junicode does "work" on my system, but I'd have to edit it and swap the insular letters and the regular basic Latin. [...] So without editing it, it's useless for universal ebooks.
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Huh? The fallback should be basic Latin. If you write "this & that", that's what you'd see. It's only if you activate a feature such as ss02 that is displayed with some more fanciness, and you can do that for specific words/paragraphs/sections with CSS.
If you want only
some of the substitutions activated by ss02 and not others, you'd have to edit the font indeed. But instead of switching characters, you could just edit the ss02 table (or create a new one).
If it's just a stylistic choice and no big deal if a particular reader does not support OpenType features, then you're done. Good readers will display what you want, poor readers will display the readable base Latin characters, and search and TTS should work in both. If you require that the alternate characters
must be displayed, then you'd need to manually switch glyphs, but you're doomed anyway, because not all readers (both human and device) like/support/enable embedded fonts.