## Summary
Consolidate the script help/startup fixes so standalone helper commands
can show usage without requiring runtime-only dependencies or generating
files.
## Details
Several helper scripts imported optional packages, evaluated newer
annotations, or started generation before users could inspect CLI usage.
On a fresh checkout, this made common help paths fail on missing
packages such as `cairosvg`, `Pillow`, `freetype-py`, `fontTools`,
`pyphen`, `pyserial`, or on Python 3.9 annotation evaluation. A few
generators also treated `--help` as a normal output argument and wrote
files instead of printing usage.
This change keeps runtime dependencies on the code paths that need them,
handles lightweight help/list commands first, and adds explicit `--help`
handling for generator scripts that previously started work.
## Validation
- `python3 <script> --help` across tracked Python scripts, excluding
`scripts/patch_jpegdec.py` because it is a PlatformIO pre-build hook
rather than a standalone CLI
- `python3 scripts/convert_icon.py` still exits with usage for missing
required arguments
- `python3 lib/EpdFont/scripts/fontconvert_sdcard.py --list-presets`
- `python3 -m py_compile` for the changed scripts
## Summary
Fixes#258. Bookerly is not licensed for use in CrossPoint. Switched to
Google's open Noto Serif font.
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Improved typesetting, including
[kerning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning) and
[ligatures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)#Latin_alphabet).
**What changes are included?**
- The script to convert built-in fonts now adds kerning and ligature
information to the generated font headers.
- Epub page layout calculates proper kerning spaces and makes ligature
substitutions according to the selected font.
## Additional Context
- I am not a typography expert.
- The implementation has been reworked from the earlier version, so it
is no longer necessary to omit Open Dyslexic, and kerning data now
covers all fonts, styles, and codepoints for which we include bitmap
data.
- Claude Opus 4.6 helped with a lot of this.
- There's an included test epub document with lots of kerning and
ligature examples, shown in the photos.
**_After some time to mature, I think this change is in decent shape to
merge and get people testing._**
After opening this PR I came across #660, which overlaps in adding
ligature support.
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### AI Usage
While CrossPoint doesn't have restrictions on AI tools in contributing,
please be transparent about their usage as it
helps set the right context for reviewers.
Did you use AI tools to help write this code? _**YES, Claude Opus 4.6**_
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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Danila Yudin