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ligatures no longer supported by the Calibre viewer ?
Hi, I have a problem with the new Calibre viewer (Calibre 4.x) when an e-book in the epub format contains ligatures.
With the old viewer (Calibre 3.x) ligatures were shown in the viewer correctly. But the new viewer only shows a small rectangle instead of the ligatures. I tried to convert the epub file again without the "keep ligatures" option but that didn't help. Do I do something wrong? Thank you very much for your help. |
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I'd be very surprised if it didn't support ligatures, the viewer uses the chromium browser to render text, and as far as I know it most definitely supports ligatures. Might be an issue with a particular font.
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In the Viewer, press Esc (to get the menu): preferences: Fonts (section): Adjust the font family used (depends on what style of font is having issues: sans or serif ) NOTE these settings are for UNSTYLED book text
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Now I tried the chrome extension EPUBReader and the ligatures where shown correctly. I also tried the Calibre 4.5 viewer with the same font preferences I had used with the 3.48 version. But that made no difference, the ligatures (mostly "ll", but also "fr", "ft", ...) were still not shown correctly.
The e-book I used is "Hoffmann - Werke v1.0.epub" from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=192411. So it's still a mystery ... |
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Looks fine on my system, see screenshot.
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Look closer at line 2, word 3 in your screencap
![]() My Windows 10 PC looks the same as the OP's. However, opening the epub in the calibre Editor and fixing the errors flagged by running CheckBook (particularly the font and @font-face errors) seems to fix it OK. @psteinhofer, BTW the 'll' isn't a ligature in the html file. |
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Thank you very much for your help. Yes, the problem was caused by font errors in the css of the e-book. I used the e-book editor of the viewer for the first time and deleted the fonts in the css. Now I use the settings of the viewer for unformatted text.
Obviously the old viewer was a little more error-tolerant. But now it works fine too. |
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