Getting a font into the editor

[dan2the6th]

OK, I'm not too good at this. I'm editing an e-book of "The Hobbit", and I'm wanting to fix up a couple spots that use the "moon runes". Right now the book just uses JPEG files for the runes, and it's ugly.

So I downloaded a TrueType font from someplace that has the runes as characters. I installed the font on my Windows PC and I can use it in Microsoft Word, for example.

But when I use the Calibre Editor, how can I access that font to type rune characters into the text? I'm lost here.

Any help?

[theducks]

On the File Menu: New file: Import Resource file (a button at bottom):<navigate to the font file you downloaded>
IIRC it will make an @font entry in the style sheet. otherwise that will be your task as well as making a: span.rune style and using that span where needed

[phossler]

In addition to theducks' comment, I Googled and downloaded a runic font and made a simple epub with the font embedded and a CSS that creates a class

The @font-face and the .runes are needed

@charset "utf-8";
/* Styles for Test */
@font-face {
  font-family: "Angerthas Moria";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  font-stretch: normal;
  src: url(../fonts/AngerthasMoria-lgLAD.ttf);
}

.runes {
    font-family: Angerthas Moria;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 1.5em;
    
  }

HTH