[FM Discuss] "ReadingAndSugar" now pimped with drop caps, please publish

[James Simmons]

John,

I believe Rebecca Malamud of the Rural Design Collective has used
@font-face, and may have used it with OBJAVI as well.

James Simmons


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:52 AM, John Curwood
<marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, since reading this thread, I've come across
> reference to an @font-face css rule, which allows a browser to download
> a font off a server to display locally as it would for images or flash
> files.  Has anyone had experience with this?  Could it be used on an
> HTML version of a Booki book or FM manual?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 10:06 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> On the web I'm limited to fonts that are commonly available but when I
>> make my style sheet for OBJAVI II I'll pick a font family that's a
>> little fancier.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:02 PM, John Curwood
>> <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
>> > Hi James,
>> >
>> > I've re-published Ebook Enlightenment for you.
>> >
>> > By the way I like your Idea of using a different font on the first
>> > letter of a chapter.  I've seen a couple of really good decorative
>> > black-letter fonts that would be perfect for that job, giving the
>> > impression of a medieval text (unfortunately I can't remember their
>> > names at present).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 17:57 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> >> I've put drop-caps in all the chapters of "E-Book Enlightenment" that
>> >> are visible in the HTML and which can be seen in generated PDFs (and
>> >> probably EPUBs) if you use a style sheet that supports them.  I'd like
>> >> to have the book published so that all may see said drop caps and be
>> >> impressed.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> James Simmons
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