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Originally Posted by Hitch
Luise:
May I ask a simple question? Is this entire discussion over naught more than the symbols? The suit symbols? You've decided to use html-supported basic fonts like TimesNewRoman and Arial, all that, right? You said that at the beginning of the thread?
Are you using any "symbols" that are spectacularly arcane? Because, if you are NOT, just using the plain old plain old html codes for them works fine, at least it has so far in every epub & mobi I've put out. I use the trademark (tm) symbol all the time, and a bunch of typographical conventions (like tildes). I simply use the ™ version for trademark and that ilk. I'm pretty sure that you can use anything you can find here:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp
In an epub and have it work on every reader and there's absolutely no reason to embed the "symbol" font that I know of. I certainly haven't embedded any fonts and my symbols work fine.
Does this help at all?
Hitch |
Yes, that's it exactly. I'm glad that we're on the same wavelength -- it makes me feel more confident that we're doing the right thing.
I suppose if the market changes substantially, then we may need to make a change later down the road. But for now, I think we can be fairly safe to continue down our current path.