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So what I observed here is, Kobo saves the book font each time, but at the beginning the dictionary font is reverted back to the system font again. For now, I did the above mentioned procedure with a regular EPUB file, since I am still using the old regular EPUB files in the reader. Only now I was reading the forums and get to know the benefits of using KEPUBs. Seems like I can do the conversion easily with a Calibre plugin. I will try with a KEPUB and update you. Thank you very much for the response and your time. ![]() |
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However, all my custom dictionaries are different variations of En-En (i.e. not translation dictionaries) so it's possible my testing wasn't broad enough for your purposes. If you want to PM me a link to both the English-Malayalam dictionary and Malayalam fonts you're trying to use I could have another look. |
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The other solution would be to roll back to 4.31 to avoid all of this, wouldn't it?
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Well, maybe you could do that, but as the "problem" arose from Kobo deciding to change the way fonts are handled it's unlikely to ever be "fixed" so you'd be marooned on fw <4.32 forever. I'm not sure I'd describe that as a real solution. For example, you couldn't do that on a Clara 2E because its earliest fw was 4.33.x (or 4.34.x), I think.
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=797 I have sent you the font file as PM. Please check. Thank you, ![]() |
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- ReplaceString: {Offset: 54, Find: "%4, serif ", Replace: "'Noto Sans Malayalam'", MustMatchLength: yes} It doesn't seem to matter which epub/kepub I open/re-open, if I do a dictionary lookup (any dictionary) the word definition uses the Malayalam Regular font for the parts of the definition which are intended to be displayed as Regular. I don't know how to fix the dictionary label's Malayalam characters but if it's a problem, a simple renaming of dicthtml-en-ml.zip may be the easiest workaround.
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I was facing the same behavior as described in my previous posts despite multiple attempts, till I loaded the kepub test file you provided. What I observed is, after loading the kepub and setting the fonts in it, especially the "supplemental" font, things started to change. In kepub, for the first time, the Malayalam font was saved and retained upon reopening. Encouraged by this experience, I decided to clean up my entire book library on the device. I installed the latest version of Calibre with the kepub conversion plugin, and reuploded the entire library of books in kepub format. Additionally, I moved my dictionary from '/.kobo/dicts' to '/.kobo/custom-dict'. Later the kobopatch with the custom dictionary font is applied again. Now everything is working smoothly. I really like the the functionality 'supplemental font' with kepub files. For English books, I can set the main font to 'Amasis' and the supplemental font to 'Noto Sans Malayalam'. I even experimented with other installed Malayalam fonts as supplemental fonts, and they all worked seamlessly. Notably, Kobo seems to save this information with the kepub, as it survives a reboot. Thank you so much for your response and detailed instructions. ![]() |
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Hi, may I have some help? I've tried this process multiple times and still couldn't manage to find any koboroot file in the out folder. The firmware version is right (the last one), what can I do? Should I apply every modification of the files (the ones with the yes/no values) one at a time or what else? I don't understand :\
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I've had this happen to me A LOT, when I unintentionally enabled two patches that are mutually exclusive and cannot be enabled together. If that happens, no KoboRoot.tgz is generated, and the log file records which conflict caused the failure |
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Thank you so much! Apparently I applied two incompatible patches for the home screen
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Another tip if anybody can help: how should I edit the nickel.yaml file under the "Custom header/footer captions" patch if I only want the header and footer font to show in grey, and no other change (I'm satisfied enough with the reduced space from another patch)?
Plus, is there any patch to force the kepub reader on the device to show ligatures and good kerning (seems only avaiable for epubs)? Thanks! |
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