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

[adam]

hey

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 13:16 -0700, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud wrote:
> Hello, John -
> 
> Yes - I have had success using @font-face with OBJAVI - you can view  
> my CSS here:
> 
> http://www.ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/ebook/enlightenment/Styles/stylesheet.css
> 
> Related blog post is here:
> 
> http://sixes.net/rdcHQ/pre-flight-check/
> 
> The trick is that you must have a server to upload the fonts to if you  
> wish to use a custom font (otherwise you are limited to the default  
> set in OBJAVI). It would be nice if free font services offered a  
> repository for linking to free fonts directly for web use, but  
> performance issues must prohibit them from doing so.
> 

we were thinking the same thing. I filed this ticket here for Objavi:
http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/286

have a look at this:
http://openfontlibrary.org/

and this:
http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Web_font_linking_with_%
40font-face#How_to_use_linked_fonts

I thoroughly encourage anyone who has developed free fonts to consider
uploading them to the OFL

adam



> Rebecca Malamud
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 6:48 AM, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > 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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