Html text problem

Hey guys. I have an html-formatted text field using CSS styling. It looks great. However, I want to embed the font so it can be alpha faded, etc. But when I do this, the text gets messed up and most of it not displayed. I have been researching all over the place for some details on this, but I can’t find any. The only thing I’ve found on this forum was someone saying that you just can’t embed font outlines with html formatted text. Is this true? Why?? Has anyone gotten around it?
The wierd thing is that some of the text does display, but it just acts strangely. Anyone???