Re: [docbook-apps] embedding fonts in epub? (and docbook for publishers -- hurrah!)

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Robert,
I presume you are using the epub3 stylesheets.  There is an empty 
utility template named 'user.manifest.items' that will write custom 
items into the manifest.  See epub3/epub3-element-mods.xsl for examples 
of how to write elements in the opf namespace.

I would be curious to hear how well it works in ereaders.  When I was 
preparing the epub for my solar energy book earlier this year, I 
considered using embedded fonts.  But the more I read about it, the more 
I learned about the difficulties and inconsistencies, and decided it 
wasn't worth it, at least at that time.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 11/30/2015 12:32 AM, Robert Nagle wrote:
> I'm at the final stages of making an epub file, and I was wondering if
> there's an easy way to declare a font file for embedding.
>
> I generally am fine with manually moving over assets into the output
> folder. But apparently a reference appears in the opf manifest file.
>
>
> To add the reference you need to declare the location in the css
> (check!) and declare it in the OPF manifest (oops!)
>
> See
> http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/1037/can-i-make-custom-fonts-show-up-in-ibooks
>
> When the epub stylesheets were written, support for embedding fonts was
> practically nonexistent, but now I think all the major platforms support
> font-embedding.
>
> (By the way, a great reference on all aspects of using embedded fonts in
> ebooks is here: https://www.bisg.org/publications/field-guide-fonts-ebooks )
>
> Perhaps -- if it's not already done, this could be handled as a
> parameter. I'll be happy to write up a feature request.
>
>
> Wow, the most recent stylesheets  have been written to support Docbook
> for Publishers... That's a big deal for me and greatly appreciated. (I
> just learned this .... 5 minutes ago!) Too bad, because it would have
> helped with my current ebook (whose deadline is rapidly approaching).
> But I have several other ebooks to try it out on over the next few
> months. In 2013 I used Docbook to produce a dramatic text... and some of
> those elements could have come in handy at the time......
>
>
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