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Originally Posted by bookman156
I wonder if you can reference a webfont with an absolute URL if your reader works with woff2 fonts? Of course it would be no good for an Asian font, in any case I don't believe there is such a thing as an Asian webfont as they'd just be too massive.
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I think the reading application just opens the link, assuming:
* The application (app or on dedicated ereader) can open a link at all. Some ereaders can't so now we have added a QR code (works pointing phone at ereader, monitor or tablet) any place a URL is in the text and there are no URLs in the story now except internally to a page(s) with back links. Ideally after each chapter if footnotes for readers with no link following.
* * You'd need a WiFi or other route to the Internet. Even if you could load a font that way, a high chance of having nothing given portable nature of ereaders. A phone is more likely to work, but I never have cell data on my phone.
* I can't imagine a dedicated ereader loading font from the Internet. Maybe some apps can, but many apps don't even use embedded or local fonts referenced by CSS, just whatever the mad app programmer has decided.