feat: add SD card font support with on-device download and web management

Add a complete SD card font subsystem that enables users to install and
use custom fonts beyond the three built-in families. This combines the
back-end firmware support (#1327) with the font configuration, build
pipeline, CI distribution, and user-facing management UI (#1392).

Core font system:
- Custom .cpfont binary format (v4) with multi-style support (regular,
  bold, italic, bold-italic) packed into a single file per size
- On-demand glyph loading from SD card with two-pass prewarm rendering
  to bulk-read glyphs per page, achieving near-flash performance for
  Latin text (~697ms vs ~681ms) and viable CJK rendering (~32% slower)
- Persistent advance cache for layout measurement without SD I/O
- Overflow ring buffer for glyph cache misses during rendering
- Memory-conscious design: only advance tables kept in RAM; glyph
  bitmaps, kern tables, and ligatures loaded on demand from SD

Font management:
- On-device WiFi download from GitHub Releases with manifest-based
  discovery, install/update detection, and progress UI
- Web interface font upload, listing, and deletion via /fonts page
- Manual SD card copy to /fonts/ or /.fonts/ directories
- Font selection integrated into Settings > Reader > Font Family

Build pipeline:
- Declarative YAML config (sd-fonts.yaml) as single source of truth
  for the 17-family font library (serif, sans, mono, accessibility)
- Python converter (fontconvert_sdcard.py) for TTF/OTF to .cpfont with
  FreeType rasterization, class-based kerning, and ligature extraction
- Parallel build orchestrator with variable font instance extraction
- CI workflow publishing versioned + stable releases to a dedicated
  crosspoint-fonts repository with auto-incrementing revision tags
- Centralized version constants (cpfont_version.py) shared across
  build tooling and CI, with firmware headers as manual sync points

Additional fixes:
- CJK characters no longer get hyphens inserted at line breaks
- Advance table eliminates 30+ second stalls during CJK section
  indexing for paragraphs with >512 unique codepoints

Closes #930

Co-authored-by: Zach Nelson <zach@zdnelson.com>
Co-authored-by: Justin <itsthisjustin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jpirnay <jens@pirnay.com>
Co-authored-by: mcrosson <kemonine@kemonine.info>
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Adrian Wilkins-Caruana
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#pragma once
#include <cstdint>
#include "EpdFont.h"
#include "EpdFontData.h"
// On-disk binary format version for .cpfont files. Defined as a preprocessor
// macro (rather than a constexpr) so it can be stringified into the SD-fonts
// release URL — see FONT_MANIFEST_URL in FontDownloadActivity.h. No integer
// suffix because stringification would include it (e.g. `4U` → `"4U"`).
//
// The canonical version for the build tooling lives in
// lib/EpdFont/scripts/cpfont_version.py. This firmware-side copy must be
// bumped manually when the firmware is updated to support a new format.
// Reader enforcement: SdCardFont::load().
#define CPFONT_VERSION 4
class SdCardFont {
public:
static constexpr uint16_t MAX_PAGE_GLYPHS = 512;
static constexpr uint8_t MAX_STYLES = 4;
SdCardFont() = default;
~SdCardFont();
// Owns raw buffers freed in dtor — no shallow-copy semantics. Make any
// accidental pass-by-value or move a compile-time error.
SdCardFont(const SdCardFont&) = delete;
SdCardFont& operator=(const SdCardFont&) = delete;
SdCardFont(SdCardFont&&) = delete;
SdCardFont& operator=(SdCardFont&&) = delete;
// Load .cpfont file: reads header + intervals into RAM, records file layout offsets.
// Supports v4 (multi-style) format.
// Returns true on success.
bool load(const char* path);
// Pre-read glyphs needed for the given UTF-8 text from SD card.
// styleMask: bitmask of styles to prewarm (bit 0=regular, 1=bold, 2=italic, 3=bolditalic).
// Default 0x0F = all present styles.
// When metadataOnly=true, only glyph metrics are loaded (no bitmap data).
// Returns number of glyphs that couldn't be loaded (0 on full success).
int prewarm(const char* utf8Text, uint8_t styleMask = 0x0F, bool metadataOnly = false);
// Build a compact advance-only table for layout measurement.
// Extracts ALL unique codepoints from utf8Text (no MAX_PAGE_GLYPHS cap),
// batch-reads advanceX from SD, stores in a sorted per-style table.
// Returns number of codepoints not found in font coverage.
int buildAdvanceTable(const char* utf8Text, uint8_t styleMask = 0x0F);
// Look up advanceX for a codepoint from the advance table.
// Returns the 12.4 fixed-point advance, or 0 if not found.
uint16_t getAdvance(uint32_t codepoint, uint8_t style) const;
// Returns true if advance table is populated for at least one style.
bool hasAdvanceTable() const;
// Free mini data for all styles, restore stub EpdFontData.
// Also clears the temporary advance table (built per layout pass) but
// preserves the persistent advance cache (reused across passes).
void clearCache();
// Drop the persistent advance cache. Call when unloading the SD font or
// when font/size/family/glyph-table state changes.
void clearPersistentCache();
// Returns pointer to the managed EpdFont for a given style.
// Returns nullptr if the style is not present.
EpdFont* getEpdFont(uint8_t style = 0);
// Returns true if the given style is present in this font file.
bool hasStyle(uint8_t style) const;
// Number of styles present in this font file.
uint8_t styleCount() const { return styleCount_; }
// Returns true if the glyph pointer points into the overflow buffer.
bool isOverflowGlyph(const EpdGlyph* glyph) const;
// Returns the bitmap for an on-demand-loaded (overflow) glyph.
const uint8_t* getOverflowBitmap(const EpdGlyph* glyph) const;
// Extract SdCardFont* from an opaque glyphMissCtx pointer.
// Used by GfxRenderer::getGlyphBitmap() to recover the SdCardFont from EpdFontData::glyphMissCtx.
static SdCardFont* fromMissCtx(void* ctx);
struct Stats {
uint32_t prewarmTotalMs = 0;
uint32_t sdReadTimeMs = 0;
uint32_t seekCount = 0;
uint32_t uniqueGlyphs = 0;
uint32_t bitmapBytes = 0;
};
void logStats(const char* label = "SDCF");
void resetStats();
const Stats& getStats() const { return stats_; }
// Content hash of the file header + style TOC entries (computed during load).
// Used to generate deterministic font IDs for section cache invalidation.
uint32_t contentHash() const { return contentHash_; }
private:
// Per-style metadata (parsed from file header/TOC)
struct CpFontHeader {
uint32_t intervalCount = 0;
uint32_t glyphCount = 0;
uint8_t advanceY = 0;
int16_t ascender = 0;
int16_t descender = 0;
bool is2Bit = false;
uint16_t kernLeftEntryCount = 0;
uint16_t kernRightEntryCount = 0;
uint8_t kernLeftClassCount = 0;
uint8_t kernRightClassCount = 0;
uint8_t ligaturePairCount = 0;
};
// All per-style data: file offsets, intervals, kern/lig, prewarm cache, EpdFont
struct PerStyle {
CpFontHeader header{};
// File layout offsets for this style's data sections
uint32_t intervalsFileOffset = 0;
uint32_t glyphsFileOffset = 0;
uint32_t kernLeftFileOffset = 0;
uint32_t kernRightFileOffset = 0;
uint32_t kernMatrixFileOffset = 0;
uint32_t ligatureFileOffset = 0;
uint32_t bitmapFileOffset = 0;
// Full intervals loaded from file (kept in RAM for codepoint lookup)
EpdUnicodeInterval* fullIntervals = nullptr;
// Persistent kern-class + ligature tables (lazy-loaded on first prewarm).
// The full kern MATRIX is NOT resident — on Literata-class fonts a single
// style's matrix is ~36-42KB contiguous, and 4 styles' worth won't fit
// alongside bitmaps + framebuffer on a 380KB device. Only kernLeftClasses
// and kernRightClasses (small codepoint→classId tables, ~3KB each) stay
// resident; the matrix is reconstructed per-page as miniKernMatrix.
EpdKernClassEntry* kernLeftClasses = nullptr;
EpdKernClassEntry* kernRightClasses = nullptr;
EpdLigaturePair* ligaturePairs = nullptr;
bool kernLigLoaded = false;
// Stub EpdFontData returned when not prewarmed
EpdFontData stubData{};
// Mini EpdFontData built during prewarm
EpdFontData miniData{};
EpdUnicodeInterval* miniIntervals = nullptr;
EpdGlyph* miniGlyphs = nullptr;
uint8_t* miniBitmap = nullptr;
uint32_t miniIntervalCount = 0;
uint32_t miniGlyphCount = 0;
// Per-page mini kern matrix (built by buildMiniKernMatrix on each full
// prewarm). miniKernLeftClasses/miniKernRightClasses map ONLY the codepoints
// used on the current page to renumbered class IDs (1..miniKern*ClassCount).
// miniKernMatrix is a small miniKernLeftClassCount × miniKernRightClassCount
// flat matrix. Typical Latin page: ~25×25 matrix = ~625 bytes per style vs
// ~36KB for the full Literata matrix — ~50× reduction.
EpdKernClassEntry* miniKernLeftClasses = nullptr;
EpdKernClassEntry* miniKernRightClasses = nullptr;
uint16_t miniKernLeftEntryCount = 0;
uint16_t miniKernRightEntryCount = 0;
uint8_t miniKernLeftClassCount = 0;
uint8_t miniKernRightClassCount = 0;
int8_t* miniKernMatrix = nullptr;
// The EpdFont whose data pointer we manage
EpdFont epdFont{&stubData};
bool present = false;
};
PerStyle styles_[MAX_STYLES] = {};
uint8_t styleCount_ = 0;
char filePath_[128] = {};
// Overflow context: glyphMissHandler needs to know which style it's serving
struct OverflowContext {
SdCardFont* self;
uint8_t styleIdx;
};
OverflowContext overflowCtx_[MAX_STYLES] = {};
// Shared on-demand overflow buffer (ring buffer of glyphs loaded via glyphMissHandler)
static constexpr uint32_t OVERFLOW_CAPACITY = 8;
struct OverflowEntry {
EpdGlyph glyph;
uint8_t* bitmap = nullptr;
uint32_t codepoint = 0;
uint8_t styleIdx = 0;
};
OverflowEntry overflow_[OVERFLOW_CAPACITY] = {};
uint32_t overflowCount_ = 0;
uint32_t overflowNext_ = 0;
// Compact advance-only table for layout measurement (per-style).
// Built by buildAdvanceTable(), queried by getAdvance().
struct AdvanceEntry {
uint32_t codepoint;
uint16_t advanceX; // 12.4 fixed-point
};
// Per-style advance table. Sorted by codepoint for binary lookup.
// Bounded to ADVANCE_CACHE_LIMIT entries; persists across layout passes
// (across calls to clearCache()) so repeated indexing of the same font
// amortizes SD reads. Cleared only on font unload or clearPersistentCache().
static constexpr uint32_t ADVANCE_CACHE_LIMIT = 768;
AdvanceEntry* advanceTable_[MAX_STYLES] = {};
uint32_t advanceTableSize_[MAX_STYLES] = {};
bool advanceTableLookup(uint8_t styleIdx, uint32_t codepoint, uint16_t* outAdvance) const;
// Merge sortedNew (sorted by codepoint, no overlap with existing) into the
// advance table for styleIdx, preserving sort order; cap-truncates the tail.
void mergeIntoAdvanceTable(uint8_t styleIdx, const AdvanceEntry* sortedNew, uint32_t newCount);
Stats stats_;
uint32_t contentHash_ = 0;
bool loaded_ = false;
// Per-style helpers
void freeStyleMiniData(PerStyle& s);
void freeStyleAll(PerStyle& s);
void freeStyleKernLigatureData(PerStyle& s);
void freeStyleMiniKern(PerStyle& s);
bool loadStyleKernLigatureData(PerStyle& s);
bool buildMiniKernMatrix(PerStyle& s, const uint32_t* codepoints, uint32_t cpCount);
void applyKernLigaturePointers(PerStyle& s, EpdFontData& data) const;
void applyGlyphMissCallback(uint8_t styleIdx);
int32_t findGlobalGlyphIndex(const PerStyle& s, uint32_t codepoint) const;
int prewarmStyle(uint8_t styleIdx, const uint32_t* codepoints, uint32_t cpCount, bool metadataOnly);
// Global helpers
void freeAll();
void clearOverflow();
static void computeStyleFileOffsets(PerStyle& s, uint32_t baseOffset);
// Static callback for EpdFontData::glyphMissHandler (per-style via OverflowContext)
static const EpdGlyph* onGlyphMiss(void* ctx, uint32_t codepoint);
};