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Originally Posted by davidfor
I had to look up what you meant by "old-style figures" and "lining figures". And, honestly, I'm tempted to not help as I don't think the "old-style figures" make the text more readable. The page probably looks better when it appears, but, I don't think that reading long numbers like that is easier.
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Thanks. I'm sure you're right for most readers. But one of the things I do for a living it typeset books, and it really is one of the things that bugs me most when it comes to reading e-books as opposed to professionally typeset physical books.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Having said that, you shouldn't have to do anything. The built-in font Georgia has the old style numbers and they are used when numbers are used in the text. Most of the other built-in fonts use lining figures, and again, that is how numbers appear with these fonts. To user your font, either embed it in the book and select "Publisher Default" as the font. Or add the fonts to the device and select it.
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That's interesting about Georgia - useful to know!
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Originally Posted by davidfor
If the font you want to use does something else, then you would need to edit the book to match how it works. I can only think that would be if the font has both styles with one style in the "normal" place, and the other somewhere else. Then you would need to edit the book to change the numbers to use the other characters.
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Yes, the font I'm using (Minion) has full sets of glyphs for both text figures and lining figures. In fact, the kepub files concerned were converted from Word docs which I prepared myself - and they do have text figures throughout, in the Word file. But for some reason the conversion process reverts them back to lining figures. I imagine there must be some way of editing the font itself, so that text figures are the default (as in Georgia) - and I guess I can research how to do that elsewhere. Anyway, many thanks.