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Well… hold on a second.
Implying that Hitch is a troll is … just wrong. It’s undeserved and inaccurate. She is on here all the time helping people. It’s normal for people to misunderstand a point, or just miss it for that matter - especially as threads get longer and longer. She has tons of great points and lots of actual experience navigating these issues people bring up.
It serves everyone well to respectfully listen to others - even if they occasionally misunderstand a point.
Cheers!
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Well, I'm quite sure that it's also driven,
heavily by the very varied circumstances in which each person is thinking about using 3 or 8 or 20 fonts. I know when
I'm asked for them. I know what I see, in the manuscripts, when I'm asked, and what I'm told about how it will or shan't work, when the scenario is explicated. I mean...as you know, Dion and so does everyone else here, we've done many thousands of eBooks. It's hardly shocking that I have an opinion about it. Trolling? Why? Because of what I think of the practice? Oh, right...today, you're trolling if you have an opinion about something and it diverges from that which the other person has utmost in their mind.
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"Supports", in this context, means simply that it has the ability to use. With the rest of my comment I made it clear that I consider it a developing thing, so as it works better now than it used to, I expect it'll work better in the future than it does now.
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Okay--well, then, since "fonts" generically and loosely are supported for most--not all--KDP readers, devices, software, etc.--then there's really not much else to discuss. They're supported and you can use what you wish. (Is there some
technical point of competency here yet being debated?
Is there? I mean, those of us who've done this for
a bit know that there are mystery limits, undocumented and worse, not understood at KDP/Amazon, around font calls in CSS. We've seen it happen. We know that other things, even more murkily perceived, can result in all the fonts being ripped from a book. Naught that we can all do about that, really.
Right? You can proceed apace, congrats.
Thus: what's the technical question
if one still exists? What, the "what can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong" line? Almost anything. We've all seen it. I've wrangled with it as far back as 2012, around font counts and ...any number of times since then.
As far as the
should he/
shouldn't he...[shrug]. I've seen
any number of requests for it, over the years and the books. My fave was
probably the woman author whose cast and characters were 18 different dogs--all of whom needed a different font to identify them. Bless her heart.
Hey, why not? Dogs, characters...all the same thing, eh?
@slm: I downloaded the AZW3 version of that book from her website. Thank you for the roadmap and guideposts!
Now...this comment is
unrelated to the "should we use 90-bajillion fonts identify characters" discussion (as that apparently seems to be the discussion underway here....), but
whoever chose those fonts in that AZW3 should be
shot. Good God.... :-) Oh, well...
Hitch