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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Generate an EPUB from USER_GUIDE.md."""
+
+import html as _html
+import io
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import markdown
+from ebooklib import epub
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).parent.parent
+SOURCE_MD = ROOT / "USER_GUIDE.md"
+OUTPUT_EPUB = ROOT / "CrossPoint_User_Guide.epub"
+LOGO_PNG = ROOT / "src/images/Logo120.png"
+
+# Portrait cover dimensions matching the X4 display (480×800)
+COVER_W, COVER_H = 480, 800
+
+CSS = """
+body {
+    font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
+    font-size: 1em;
+    line-height: 1.6;
+    margin: 1em 1.5em;
+    color: #111;
+}
+
+h1 { font-size: 1.8em; margin-top: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0.4em; }
+h2 { font-size: 1.4em; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.3em; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; padding-bottom: 0.2em; }
+h3 { font-size: 1.2em; margin-top: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; }
+h4 { font-size: 1.05em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; }
+h5 { font-size: 1em; margin-top: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; }
+
+p { margin: 0.6em 0; }
+
+code {
+    font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
+    font-size: 0.85em;
+    background: #f4f4f4;
+    padding: 0.1em 0.3em;
+    border-radius: 3px;
+}
+
+pre {
+    font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
+    font-size: 0.8em;
+    background: #f4f4f4;
+    border: 1px solid #ddd;
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    padding: 0.8em 1em;
+    overflow-x: auto;
+    white-space: pre-wrap;
+    word-wrap: break-word;
+}
+
+pre code {
+    background: none;
+    padding: 0;
+    border-radius: 0;
+    font-size: 1em;
+}
+
+table {
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+    width: 100%;
+    margin: 0.8em 0;
+    font-size: 0.9em;
+}
+
+th, td {
+    border: 1px solid #ccc;
+    padding: 0.4em 0.6em;
+    text-align: left;
+}
+
+th { background: #eee; font-weight: bold; }
+
+ul, ol { margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 1.8em; }
+li { margin: 0.25em 0; }
+
+a { color: #1a6699; text-decoration: none; }
+
+hr { border: none; border-top: 1px solid #ccc; margin: 1.5em 0; }
+
+.callout {
+    border-left: 4px solid #888;
+    background: #f8f8f8;
+    padding: 0.5em 0.8em;
+    margin: 0.8em 0;
+    border-radius: 0 4px 4px 0;
+}
+
+.callout-note   { border-color: #2196F3; background: #e3f2fd; }
+.callout-tip    { border-color: #4CAF50; background: #e8f5e9; }
+.callout-warning { border-color: #FF9800; background: #fff3e0; }
+
+.callout-title {
+    font-weight: bold;
+    margin-bottom: 0.3em;
+}
+
+/* Cover page */
+.cover-page {
+    text-align: center;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+.cover-page img {
+    width: 100%;
+    height: auto;
+    display: block;
+    margin: 0;
+}
+"""
+
+
+def make_cover_png() -> bytes:
+    """Generate a full-size (480×800) cover image with logo, title, and subtitle."""
+    cover = Image.new('RGB', (COVER_W, COVER_H), color=(255, 255, 255))
+    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(cover)
+
+    # Paste logo centred at ~35% down the canvas
+    with Image.open(LOGO_PNG) as logo_raw:
+        if logo_raw.mode in ('RGBA', 'LA', 'P'):
+            bg = Image.new('RGB', logo_raw.size, (255, 255, 255))
+            bg.paste(logo_raw, mask=logo_raw.convert('RGBA').split()[3])
+            logo = bg
+        else:
+            logo = logo_raw.convert('RGB')
+
+    # Scale logo to 240×240 (half the cover width)
+    logo = logo.resize((240, 240), Image.LANCZOS)
+    logo_x = (COVER_W - 240) // 2
+    logo_y = int(COVER_H * 0.28)
+    cover.paste(logo, (logo_x, logo_y))
+
+    # Try to use a system font; fall back to default if unavailable
+    try:
+        font_title = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf', 52)
+        font_sub = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf', 32)
+    except OSError:
+        font_title = ImageFont.load_default()
+        font_sub = font_title
+
+    title = 'CrossPoint'
+    subtitle = 'User Guide'
+
+    # Draw title text
+    bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), title, font=font_title)
+    tw = bbox[2] - bbox[0]
+    ty = logo_y + 240 + 48
+    draw.text(((COVER_W - tw) // 2, ty), title, fill=(0, 0, 0), font=font_title)
+
+    # Draw subtitle text
+    bbox2 = draw.textbbox((0, 0), subtitle, font=font_sub)
+    sw = bbox2[2] - bbox2[0]
+    sy = ty + (bbox[3] - bbox[1]) + 18
+    draw.text(((COVER_W - sw) // 2, sy), subtitle, fill=(80, 80, 80), font=font_sub)
+
+    # Thin horizontal rules above and below the text block
+    rule_y1 = ty - 24
+    rule_y2 = sy + (bbox2[3] - bbox2[1]) + 24
+    draw.line([(60, rule_y1), (COVER_W - 60, rule_y1)], fill=(180, 180, 180), width=1)
+    draw.line([(60, rule_y2), (COVER_W - 60, rule_y2)], fill=(180, 180, 180), width=1)
+
+    buf = io.BytesIO()
+    cover.save(buf, format='PNG')
+    return buf.getvalue()
+
+
+def preprocess_callouts(text: str) -> str:
+    """Convert GitHub-style > [!TYPE] callouts to HTML divs."""
+    lines = text.splitlines()
+    out = []
+    i = 0
+    while i < len(lines):
+        line = lines[i]
+        m = re.match(r'^>\s*\[!(NOTE|TIP|WARNING)\]\s*$', line.strip())
+        if m:
+            kind = m.group(1).lower()
+            title = kind.capitalize()
+            body_lines = []
+            i += 1
+            while i < len(lines) and lines[i].startswith('>') \
+                    and not re.match(r'^>\s*\[!', lines[i]):
+                body_lines.append(lines[i][1:].lstrip())
+                i += 1
+            body = _html.escape('\n'.join(body_lines).strip())
+            out.append(
+                f'\n<div class="callout callout-{kind}">'
+                f'<div class="callout-title">{title}</div>'
+                f'<p>{body}</p>'
+                f'</div>\n'
+            )
+        else:
+            out.append(line)
+            i += 1
+    return '\n'.join(out)
+
+
+def strip_toc(text: str) -> str:
+    """Remove the inline TOC list that follows the H1 heading."""
+    return re.sub(
+        r'(\n# CrossPoint User Guide\n)(.*?)(\n## 1\.)',
+        lambda m: m.group(1) + m.group(3),
+        text,
+        flags=re.DOTALL,
+    )
+
+
+def split_chapters(html: str):
+    """Split rendered HTML into (anchor_id, title, html_fragment) tuples by H2."""
+    pattern = re.compile(r'(<h2[^>]*>)(.*?)(</h2>)', re.DOTALL)
+    chapters = []
+    positions = [(m.start(), m.group(0), m.group(2)) for m in pattern.finditer(html)]
+
+    if not positions:
+        return [('intro', 'CrossPoint User Guide', html)]
+
+    intro_html = html[:positions[0][0]].strip()
+    if intro_html:
+        chapters.append(('intro', 'Introduction', intro_html))
+
+    seen_anchors = {c[0] for c in chapters}  # seed with 'intro' if present
+    for idx, (start, _tag, raw_title) in enumerate(positions):
+        end = positions[idx + 1][0] if idx + 1 < len(positions) else len(html)
+        fragment = html[start:end].strip()
+        title = _html.unescape(re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', '', raw_title).strip())
+        base = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9]+', '-', title.lower()).strip('-') or 'section'
+        anchor = base
+        n = 1
+        while anchor in seen_anchors:
+            anchor = f'{base}-{n}'
+            n += 1
+        seen_anchors.add(anchor)
+        chapters.append((anchor, title, fragment))
+
+    return chapters
+
+
+def make_xhtml(title: str, body: str) -> bytes:
+    return (
+        '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n'
+        '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" '
+        '"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">\n'
+        '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">\n'
+        f'<head><title>{title}</title>\n'
+        '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style/main.css"/>\n'
+        f'</head>\n<body>\n{body}\n</body>\n</html>'
+    ).encode('utf-8')
+
+
+def build_epub():
+    source = SOURCE_MD.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
+    source = strip_toc(source)
+    source = preprocess_callouts(source)
+
+    md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=['tables', 'fenced_code', 'attr_list'])
+    body_html = md.convert(source)
+
+    book = epub.EpubBook()
+    book.set_identifier('crosspoint-user-guide-v1')
+    book.set_title('CrossPoint User Guide')
+    book.set_language('en')
+    book.add_author('CrossPoint Reader Project')
+
+    style = epub.EpubItem(
+        uid='style',
+        file_name='style/main.css',
+        media_type='text/css',
+        content=CSS,
+    )
+    book.add_item(style)
+
+    # Full-size cover image (480×800) — used by CrossPoint for home-screen thumbnail.
+    # uid='cover-image' matches the EPUB 2 <meta name="cover" content="cover-image"/> value.
+    cover_png_bytes = make_cover_png()
+    cover_img_item = epub.EpubItem(
+        uid='cover-image',
+        file_name='images/cover.png',
+        media_type='image/png',
+        content=cover_png_bytes,
+    )
+    cover_img_item.properties = ['cover-image']  # EPUB 3 manifest property
+    book.add_item(cover_img_item)
+    # EPUB 2 cover declaration — CrossPoint's Tier 1 OPF lookup
+    book.add_metadata('OPF', 'meta', '', {'name': 'cover', 'content': 'cover-image'})
+
+    # Cover page XHTML — first readable page in the spine
+    cover_page = epub.EpubHtml(title='CrossPoint User Guide', file_name='cover.xhtml', lang='en')
+    cover_page.content = make_xhtml(
+        'CrossPoint User Guide',
+        '<div class="cover-page">'
+        '<img src="images/cover.png" alt="CrossPoint User Guide cover"/>'
+        '</div>',
+    )
+    cover_page.add_item(style)
+    cover_page.add_item(cover_img_item)
+    book.add_item(cover_page)
+
+    chapters_data = split_chapters(body_html)
+    epub_chapters = []
+
+    for anchor, title, fragment in chapters_data:
+        filename = f'chap_{anchor}.xhtml'
+        chapter = epub.EpubHtml(title=title, file_name=filename, lang='en')
+        chapter.content = make_xhtml(title, fragment)
+        chapter.add_item(style)
+        book.add_item(chapter)
+        epub_chapters.append(chapter)
+
+    book.toc = (epub.Link('cover.xhtml', 'Cover', 'cover'),) + tuple(epub_chapters)
+    book.add_item(epub.EpubNcx())
+    book.add_item(epub.EpubNav())
+
+    # nav is excluded from the spine — CrossPoint locates it via properties="nav" in
+    # the manifest and does not respect linear="no", so omitting it prevents it from
+    # appearing as a readable page. Cover is the first spine item.
+    book.spine = [cover_page] + epub_chapters
+
+    epub.write_epub(str(OUTPUT_EPUB), book)
+    print(f'Generated: {OUTPUT_EPUB}')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    build_epub()