My new book has a great deal of texted conversations, and I want to use a couple of special characters at the start of each message to designate that (incoming, outgoing, message not sent, etc).
I started with what I thought were basic unicode characters (insert -> symbol on Google docs), but they just appear as ?? in most readers.
I then used the Calibre editor and insert special character, thinking that might actually embed them, but equally they were either ?? or fully absent.
I figured that if I embed a font that would help, so found a free-for-commercial font which would have suitable characters for what I need and...well the above happened.
Text properly shows up on the "texted" lines, where it starts with two glyphs from the custom font, but paragraphs that were otherwise entirely default text have converted entirely to the custom font?
I feel like I'm missing something obvious? How do I force the rest of the text back to default? (This is my first choice).
I then tried to embed two fonts, one for the "normal" text and one for the special characters.
This shows properly on Calibre book view, and Pocketbook and Adobe Digital Editions, but ReadEra seems to only show one of the two custom fonts (the "normal" one, not the "special" one).
I'd appreciate any help.