Confusion with Fonts

PeterT · Yesterday, 01:51 PM

I'm a tad confised here on the usage of the Kobo Font preferences menu.

I have Atkinson Hyperlegible Next set as my font face, and Charis as the supplemental. Using EPUB Font Tester v3.0g I see the missing symbol indicator in variois places (for instance the 3rd, 7th and 8th symbol in the Macron listing).

If I change the font selection to Charis I correctly regardless of the setting for supplemental font, I see symbols in those positions.

I *thought* that the idea of the supplemental font was to use that for characters that do not exist in the main font.

Can anyone explain this for me?

Quoth · Yesterday, 02:53 PM

Does the supplementary font thing work other than in kepub format ebooks?

I've only used epub, not kepub, for years.

Aleron Ives · Yesterday, 03:26 PM

IIRC the supplemental font option only works with KEPUB.

PeterT · Yesterday, 03:31 PM

I failed to mention that it IS in kepub format.

DNSB · Yesterday, 04:54 PM

I've noticed that the missing font replacement seems to be a bit odd at times. Just for coverage, I set Arial Unicode MS as the font and Code2000 as the supplementary font. When if I opened the Hindi, Arabic and Hebrew pages, Noto Serif Devanagari, Noto Sans Arabic and Noto Serif Hebrew were downloaded and set as supplementary fonts.

Yesterday, 01:51 PM	#1
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,598 Karma: 79436940 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Confusion with Fonts I'm a tad confised here on the usage of the Kobo Font preferences menu. I have Atkinson Hyperlegible Next set as my font face, and Charis as the supplemental. Using EPUB Font Tester v3.0g I see the missing symbol indicator in variois places (for instance the 3rd, 7th and 8th symbol in the Macron listing). If I change the font selection to Charis I correctly regardless of the setting for supplemental font, I see symbols in those positions. I thought that the idea of the supplemental font was to use that for characters that do not exist in the main font. Can anyone explain this for me?

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Yesterday, 02:53 PM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,553 Karma: 108666825 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Does the supplementary font thing work other than in kepub format ebooks? I've only used epub, not kepub, for years.

Yesterday, 03:26 PM	#3
Aleron Ives Wizard Posts: 1,722 Karma: 16308824 Join Date: Sep 2022 Device: Kobo Libra 2	IIRC the supplemental font option only works with KEPUB.

Yesterday, 03:31 PM	#4
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,598 Karma: 79436940 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	I failed to mention that it IS in kepub format.

Yesterday, 04:54 PM	#5
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,405 Karma: 171313058 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I've noticed that the missing font replacement seems to be a bit odd at times. Just for coverage, I set Arial Unicode MS as the font and Code2000 as the supplementary font. When if I opened the Hindi, Arabic and Hebrew pages, Noto Serif Devanagari, Noto Sans Arabic and Noto Serif Hebrew were downloaded and set as supplementary fonts.