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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I would suggest that the smallest relative font size you should specific should be about 60%. If someone chose a 10pt font that would be a 6pt font.
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Ok, we're well above that, thanks!
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If your books have lots of non-English characters, embedding a font might be a reasonable solution. But the default fonts in ebook readers are becoming better when it comes to unicode character support. I think it would be worth checking whether you really still need to do it.
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The problem is mainly that people have a lot of strange characters in their names
In academic publishing it's completely unacceptable to misspell someone's name; this includes foreign characters and all kinds of accents. For ebooks this also means that we must be very sure that they'll display correctly. I'll have a second look (I already have a script somewhere which creates a list of used characters), but I'm not optimistic.
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Of course there are probably some of our books that won't need embedded fonts. Do you have any suggestions about what font-face definitions would be suitable for a book without embedded fonts? We use regular, italics, and occasionally bold/bold-italics font styles.