Installed a font, uninstalled it. Now ligatures don't work in that book?

[ZodWallop]

I can't figure out what I did. Someone on Reddit mentioned that the font Source wasn't working for them, neither Sans nor Serif. I installed them and they didn't work for me either, so I uninstalled. But now ligatures don't work in my current read (A Wizard of Earthsea), though they work in other books.

I'm going to remove the book with Calibre and sideload it again and see if that fixes it. But I was wondering, when the Kobo picked up the failure and used the fallback font, did it maybe mark the book in some way and that caused ligatures to stop working?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I can't figure out what I did. Someone on Reddit mentioned that the font Source wasn't working for them, neither Sans nor Serif. I installed them and they didn't work for me either, so I uninstalled. But now ligatures don't work in my current read (A Wizard of Earthsea), though they work in other books.

I'm going to remove the book with Calibre and sideload it again and see if that fixes it. But I was wondering, when the Kobo picked up the failure and used the fallback font, did it maybe mark the book in some way and that caused ligatures to stop working?

What font were you using after you removed the ones you side loaded?

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What font were you using after you removed the ones you side loaded?

Unfortunately, it won't be that simple. But to be thorough, after uninstalling the Source font, I tried using Literata Book (my go-to font), Bookerly and various built-in Kobo fonts. Ligatures didn't work with any of them. I know for certain that ligatures work on Literata Book and Bookerly (and I have the fixed bookerly that doesn't bold all italics).

What's weird is ligatures work on other books. Just not on A Wizard of Earthsea. I even tried re-downloading the .AZW from Kindle for PC, added it to Calibre as a duplicate and sent it to Kobo as a new kepub and still no ligatures.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Unfortunately, it won't be that simple. But to be thorough, after uninstalling the Source font, I tried using Literata Book (my go-to font), Bookerly and various built-in Kobo fonts. Ligatures didn't work with any of them. I know for certain that ligatures work on Literata Book and Bookerly (and I have the fixed bookerly that doesn't bold all italics).

What's weird is ligatures work on other books. Just not on A Wizard of Earthsea. I even tried re-downloading the .AZW from Kindle for PC, added it to Calibre as a duplicate and sent it to Kobo as a new kepub and still no ligatures.

Have you tried rebooting your Kobo? If that doesn't work, reinstall that font and select it. If Ligatures are once again working, select the font you really want.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Have you tried rebooting your Kobo?

Yep.

If that doesn't work, reinstall that font and select it. If Ligatures are once again working, select the font you really want.

The problem started with a font that just didn't work on Kobo (still not sure why it doesn't work, but that is neither here nor there). Since uninstalling it caused me issues already, I'm kinda gun-shy about loading it back on the device.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The problem started with a font that just didn't work on Kobo (still not sure why it doesn't work, but that is neither here nor there). Since uninstalling it caused me issues already, I'm kinda gun-shy about loading it back on the device.

I'd give it a go. It might fix things. But if you are worried, you could copy the contents of your Kobo to your computer as a backup.