smallcaps not showing on Kobo

[Siavahda]

EPUB, not KEPUB. Font is set to a side-loaded font (Baskerville) but I experimented with other fonts and it made no difference.

I've set a chunk of text to display in smallcaps. In the Calibre Editor preview, it looks perfect. Same in the Calibre Viewer. But on my Kobo, the smallcaps don't show; the affected text is larger than it was (as I specified) but otherwise normal.

The CSS is just

.blog {
display: block;
font-variant: small-caps;
font-size: 120%;
}

I'm sure I'm missing something terribly obvious, but googling around hasn't turned up a solution.

I went to check, and smallcaps that worked in AZW3 on my Kindle are not displaying as smallcaps now they're in EPUB on my Kobo.

I tried looking up whether smallcaps just don't display on the Kobo, but I couldn't find anything. ???

[Falkor]

Sure they work, just rename the file from epub to .kepub.epub.

[Siavahda]

Originally Posted by Falkor

Sure they work, just rename the file from epub to .kepub.epub.

I really don't want to do that - em dashes don't display properly in KEPUB, it's the whole reason I went to the effort of making sure my library is in EPUB.

[JSWolf]

font-variant: small-caps; does not work in RMSDK used to display ePub. You'd have to make sure what you want to be small-caps is set to uppercase and instead of the font variant, use font-size: 0.8333em;.

[Siavahda]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

font-variant: small-caps; does not work in RMSDK used to display ePub. You'd have to make sure what you want to be small-caps is set to uppercase and instead of the font variant, use font-size: 0.8333em;.

text-transform: uppercase didn't work, it's correct in the Calibre Viewer but on the Kobo the text is displayed normally.

[Karellen]

You would need to embed a smallcaps font, and <span> all occurrences of smallcaps.

[DNSB]

You don't use text-transform: uppercase. You type the text in upper case using spans as needed.

BTW, what you are running into is why I've switched over to using kepub for most of my personal use books. RMSDK is more lacking every passing year.

<p class="pf"><span class="smallcaps">This is for George.</span></p>

<p>T<span class="smallc8">HIS IS FOR </span>G<span class="smallc8">EORGE</span>.</p>

.smallcaps {
  font-variant: small-caps;
}

.smallc8 {
  font-size: 0.8333em;
}

[Siavahda]

Originally Posted by DNSB

You don't use text-transform: uppercase. You type the text in upper case using spans as needed.

BTW, what you are running into is why I've switched over to using kepub for most of my personal use books. RMSDK is more lacking every passing year.

<p class="pf"><span class="smallcaps">This is for George.</span></p>

<p>T<span class="smallc8">HIS IS FOR </span>G<span class="smallc8">EORGE</span>.</p>

.smallcaps {
  font-variant: small-caps;
}

.smallc8 {
  font-size: 0.8333em;
}

Thank you, but if I need to rewrite the text in upper case first this isn't workable. We're talking about huge chunks of the book.

I would love to use KEPUB, but it doesn't display em dashes properly and that stresses me out to an unreasonable degree. The second KEPUB fixes that, I'd be delighted to use it.

(Originally the text in question was in monospace, but apparently Kobos can't handle that either in an EPUB Switching to smallcaps was what I hoped would be an acceptable alternative. But I guess not.)

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by Siavahda

(Originally the text in question was in monospace, but apparently Kobos can't handle that either in an EPUB

Yes it can. I have epubs (not kepubs) that have portions of the novel using monospace. You need to embed a mono font and <span> the sections that are using mono.

[Siavahda]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Yes it can. I have epubs (not kepubs) that have portions of the novel using monospace. You need to embed a mono font and <span> the sections that are using mono.

All right, I didn't phrase that clearly enough; they can't handle monospace without embedding a monospace font. You don't need a special font to create monospace in an EPUB, but you do if you want the Kobo to recognise it. That's what I meant.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Siavahda

text-transform: uppercase didn't work, it's correct in the Calibre Viewer but on the Kobo the text is displayed normally.

text-transform: uppercase; also does not work with RMSDK on your Kobo.

You have to manually change the case to uppercase if it's not.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Yes it can. I have epubs (not kepubs) that have portions of the novel using monospace. You need to embed a mono font and <span> the sections that are using mono.

The solution to monospace in RMSDK on a Kobo is very simple. Fine a monospace font that you want to use. It has to have the name of Courier. I don't know if it just needs to be the filename or it also have to internally be called Courier. The one I have is both.

Courier-Bold.ttf
Courier-BoldItalic.ttf
Courier-Italic.ttf
Courier-Regular.ttf

[Siavahda]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

text-transform: uppercase; also does not work with RMSDK on your Kobo.

You have to manually change the case to uppercase if it's not.

That's not workable; as I replied above, we're talking about huge chunks of the book.

[Siavahda]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The solution to monospace in RMSDK on a Kobo is very simple. Fine a monospace font that you want to use. It has to have the name of Courier. I don't know if it just needs to be the filename or it also have to internally be called Courier. The one I have is both.

Courier-Bold.ttf
Courier-BoldItalic.ttf
Courier-Italic.ttf
Courier-Regular.ttf

For some reason I couldn't get the fonts to embed yesterday, but today this worked! So thank you for the nudge to try it again.

Is it supposed to only work if you have the Kobo set to Publisher Font? Or have I messed something up?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Siavahda

For some reason I couldn't get the fonts to embed yesterday, but today this worked! So thank you for the nudge to try it again.

Is it supposed to only work if you have the Kobo set to Publisher Font? Or have I messed something up?

It's supposed to work without Publisher Font. I haven't done it myself, but I've certainly read books where some sections used an embedded font and most of the book didn't. I never use Publisher Default. And yes, with epubs, not kepubs.