11-29-2023, 11:35 PM | #1 |
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about open-type display
Using calibre 7.0. for Linux (downloading slowly 7.1.)
I noted that both the Calibre viewer and editor failed to display this line in the css: Code:
font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums; Last edited by roger64; 11-29-2023 at 11:38 PM. |
11-30-2023, 01:11 AM | #2 |
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css is displayed by qt webengine, aka chromium. as far as I know chromium supports this property just fine.
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11-30-2023, 12:15 PM | #3 | |
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I have found that unless the font has full Unicode support (i.e., more than 10K code points), subsetting doesn't save you enough space to be worth it. |
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12-01-2023, 05:51 PM | #4 | |
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I agree, pointless for body text unless the font has some Asian non-alphabetic glyphs and you don't use that language. |
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