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Pay someone to do it. Include cost in your Kickstarter or similar funding. You'd be the Marketing Dept writing the shiny features.
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I'm specifically interested in making the case of books specifying "font-variant: small-caps" work. At the moment the Kobo kepub reader fakes these small caps instead of using true small caps, even if the current font supports them. Based on my experiments and reading the CSS specs I haven't found a way to do this, hence my question.
The only way I can currently think of that might work is to side-load a "small caps only" font like Vollkorn SC and change all places where books specify the font variant to also specify the different font. However this would require modifying each book individually and is thus not feasible, so I haven't tried if this would even work. Since jackie_w mentioned that Kobos can actually display true small caps I'm now curious if it's possible to do this in a general way that wouldn't require me spending weeks on modifying all books individually. |
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I'm curious as to why the SMALL CAPS are important?
On paper they have two main uses I know, neither of which is mandatory generally. 1. Certain newspapers, magazines and publishers have style guides that require things like AM, FM, BC, BCE, AM & PM to be in small caps. There is no general agreement on AM and PM, they can also be am and pm, or a.m. or A.M., or without small caps. 2. The first word or few words at the start of a Chapter. This slows down readers and reduces comprehension. Along with Drop Caps it's purely stylistic and mostly stopped 100 years ago. Now very rare in printed novels, though some web sites use a Drop Cap as a "break" SMALL CAPS and Drop Caps can fail and reduce readability. Of course some organisations insist on them. |
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From https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec
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Yes
font-variant: small-caps; is the standard way to do them. The actual text may need to be in lower case. |
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If you have an epub you need tested on the latest known Adobe RMSDK, I guess I could try, as long as I know exactly what you are looking for. I'm still learning my way around this new device. The firmware is: 6.8.3246 released on March 14, 2024, updated yesterday right after it arrived. I can confirm already that font-variant: small-caps and text-transform work as they should. Also p::first-letter works. |
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It's rather fun to see things as styled without having to resort to kepubifying first. Anyway, at the price I got the Pocketbook, could not resist. It was more alluring to me than a color device! |
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At any rate, I don't think Kobo will give us an updated RMSDK any time soon, if ever. I don't know what the issues are that prevent them, but I think if they'd been interested it would have happened already. I wish they would, but I think it's a lost cause. Honestly, Kobo probably should be working on other stuff, like text-to-speech in their app, to create better accessibility to low vision or blind users, if only to compete with Kindle and Pocketbook. (Nook, needless to say, is so far behind the curve they'll likely never catch up.) |
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As for RMSDK, if Kobo updated to the latest version, there would be no need for KePub. That's why Kobo has not updated it to the latest version. |
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