How do I properly set up Calibre to automatically display Polytonic Greek characters?
I got this epub from the internet archive,
and it doesn’t display any Greek at all. The pdf version under Foxit Reader, for example, shows everything properly,
then again it’s an image scan of the book pages.
epub (p.10.9 in Calibre):
- I have given a complete analysis of the rhetorical treatise known under the name of
the 'PrjTopinrj ^09 ‘A\e%ai>$poi’, a work long attributed to…
pdf (p.20 bottom page in Foxit):
Apparently, each epub has a CSS stylesheet which can be viewed when browsing the content of the epub with an archiving soft like winrar.
Here it is:
body {
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4 {
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
}
p {
font-family: Georgia, "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Times New Roman", serif;
}
img {
display: block; text-align: center; margin: 1em auto;
}
The default settings in Calibre has Times New Roman for serif and Verdana for sans.
I tried changing the serif to Palatino Linotype and the sans to Arial Unicode MS, but that didn’t do
anything.
A different epub, which I can’t find the link from which i downloaded it, has 38 pages of unicode text
examples (greek, hebrew w. vowelization, latin lorem ipsum ) and it displays everything without me fiddling with anything.
Although this particular file has different folder with the embedded fonts, and one with the stylesheet, something
the Internet Archive’s epub doesn’t have.
I uploaded it to megaupload:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ATAO469Z
One thing that was odd about this file is that Times New Roman, despite being completely Polytonic Greek-enabled,
did not display the accented letters.
Any help would be appreciated.
