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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Try the following eBook from the MR library and go to the first chapter titled FUGUE. It starts off with italics. I know there is nothing wrong with this ePub eBook.
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Thanks your for the link, but things are getting weirder and weirder. The Star Trek book
does display italics for every font, except for a few that allegedly consist of one weight only.
Now, what's going on here? My first thought was that Kobo Plus books don't offer the possibility of displaying italics, since those are the absolute majority of my collection (540 books). It's a silly thought of course, and a quick test showed that the few side loaded books on my Kobo don't like italics either.
My second thought however, may have been better:
Could it be the translation? Nearly all of my books are Dutch translations. So, I quickly tried one of the few original English ones on my Kobo (Nabokovs
Pale fire), and hey... italics!
Have I really found a pattern? If so, what happened to all of those translations? Why do they show italics in the Publisher Default, but remain stubborn in all other fonts? Isn't it weird? Do other foreign readers of translations face the same problem? I'm really curious...