weirdo Wrote:This is what I do for e-readers that can deal with Japanese text, specifically the paperwhite.Is there anyway I can use the tool from point two in order to output an .epub that a Nook can use? I've been fiddling with the resulting CSS files for about five hours now (on top of the couple of hours of searching the web) and have managed little more than causing the file to be unreadable.
1. Acquire a 青空文庫 format book (legal, of course)
2. Stick it into AozoraEpub3 to acquire .epub file
http://www18.atwiki.jp/hmdev/pages/21.html
I realize that the Nook usually requires embedded fonts (though there are built in Android fonts that just aren't accessible from the GUI, but can still be used by files). I've tried getting an embedded font in it as well as trying to use the supposed Asian fonts described at http://nookdevs.com/Font_Changes but I simply don't have the knowledge to have any effect.
The problem is, the tool creates files that call for 'vertical_text.css' and it's relatives in the 'css' folder to, well, make the text vertical. From what I could figure, I need edit the file 'vertical_font.css' to call for different fonts (it defaults to some MS fonts). However, no matter how I try to do it, it doesn't work.
I checked the other files, but I can't find any mention of the fonts that I attempted to change.
I'm inexperienced when it comes to ePub and XHTML in general, so it's not surprising that I couldn't figure out how to edit the code. If someone could tell me what I should do, it'd be appreciated.
In case anyone's curious, I'm not using PDFs because this tool creates really nice ePubs and actually incorporates the images of 青空文庫形式 books. If it weren't for the font problem, it'd be the best way for me to go about adding Japanese books to my Nook.