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Amazon and Adobe remind me at William Gibsons zaibatsus. They do not follow rules. They create rules. Do you really believe you can put pressure to Adobe and Amazon? How? With nukes? Amazon ebooks is probably less than .1!!! pct in Bezos spreadsheet. Similarly is Adobe. They just do not give a f... !!! edit: it is more like .00001pct Last edited by najgori; 06-08-2020 at 05:58 PM. Reason: percentages |
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I wouldn't be surprised if Kindles do the same in at least one (maybe more) of the Amazon book formats. Kobos are certainly able to display true small-caps by using the industry standard method of embedding a suitable font in the book. I'd hope Kindles would be the same, but I don't know. There are tricks you can use on a Kobo (kepub or epub) to avoid font embedding by referencing a sideloaded true small-caps font with suitable CSS. It's probably more effort than most users want to be bothered with. |
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Support for OT features (font-variant & al) already exist for Calibre, Sigil and LibreOffice. QuarkeXPress paid a front page publicity in 2018 touting its brand new support for OT features. Some companies do like to brag about their alleged "advanced typography"...
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Agreed, I thought that was implicit in me calling them tricks. Perhaps I should have been more explicit. Commercial books should only use embedding if true small-caps are absolutely 'required'.
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Embedding small caps won't work. Kindles cannot handle that properly. You embed small caps in KF8 and the body font goes to hell. You get serif or sans-serif and not your choice of font. Plus, if Publisher Font is not selected, you get uppercase. Kindles have botched font embedding big time.
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Looks like I'll have to stick with the following in the CSS PHP Code:
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And as for your CSS, the font size should be 0.8333em. And I'm not sure that the text-transform to uppercase works or not with ePub and if that is the case, you'll need to drop it and make sure the text is uppercase. Last edited by JSWolf; 03-04-2022 at 04:53 PM. |
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0.888em is oddly specific. Any reason? Is there such a thing as smallcap fonts? I should google it. |
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There are definitely smallcap fonts. I can't speak to that .888em figure there but you generally want small caps to be a smidge taller than your font's x-height, and that does sound like it'd likely land close for many fonts.
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