**What is the goal of this PR?**
A tweak to the fixed-point x-advance and kerning calculations to ensure
that the spacing between any two glyphs is always calculated
consistently.
I noticed that sometimes I'd see common character pairs like "oo" more
than once on a page, and the distance between the two snapped to
different pixels depending on the running accumulated error for the line
of text.
This change uses a differential rounding approach where each glyph's
x-advance plus the kerning relative to the next glyph are combined in
fixed-point precision, then snapped to a pixel to draw the next glyph.
This results in a consistent inter-glyph spacing any time the same two
glyphs show up adjacent to each other, regardless of the accumulated
error across the line.
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Adds HAL-level support for the Xteink X3 (SSD1677 controller, 792x528
display). Includes device detection, display initialization, button
mapping, power management, and theme adjustments for the X3 form factor.
## Purpose
This PR includes some preparatory changes that are needed for an
upcoming performant CJK font feature. The changes have no impact on
render time and heap allocation for latin text. **Despite this, I think
these changes stand on their own as a better font
compression/decompression implementation.**
## Summary
- Font decompressor rewrite: Replaced the 4-slot LRU group cache with a
two-tier system — a page buffer (glyphs prewarmed before rendering
begins) and a hot-group fallback (last decompressed group retained for
non-prewarmed
glyphs).
- Byte-aligned compressed bitmap format: Glyph bitmaps within compressed
groups are now stored row-padded rather than tightly packed before
DEFLATE compression, improving compression ratios by making identical
pixel rows produce
identical byte patterns. Glyphs are compacted back to packed format on
demand at render time. Reduces flash size by 155 KB.
- Page prewarm system: Added `Page::collectText` and
`Page::getDominantStyle` to extract per-style glyph requirements before
rendering, and `GfxRenderer::prewarmFontCache` to pre-decompress only
the groups needed for the dominant style
— eliminating mid-render decompression for the common case.
- UTF-8 robustness fixes: `utf8NextCodepoint` now validates continuation
bytes and returns a replacement glyph on malformed input;
`ChapterHtmlSlimParser` correctly preserves incomplete multi-byte
sequences across word-buffer flush
boundaries rather than splitting them.
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design was done by me, refined a bit by Claude. Code mostly by Claude,
but not entirely.
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
### Problem
Inter-word gap widths were computed as two separately-snapped integers:
```cpp
gap = getSpaceWidth(fontId, style); // fp4::toPixel(spaceAdvance)
gap += getSpaceKernAdjust(fontId, leftCp, rightCp, style); // fp4::toPixel(kern1 + kern2)
```
Because `fp4::toPixel(a) + fp4::toPixel(b)` can differ from
`fp4::toPixel(a + b)` by +/-1 pixel when the fractional parts straddle a
rounding boundary, each inter-word space could be one pixel wider or
narrower than the correct value. This affected line-break width
decisions and word-position accumulation across the whole paragraph
layout pipeline.
### Fix
Replaces `getSpaceKernAdjust()` with `getSpaceAdvance(fontId, leftCp,
rightCp, style)`, which combines the space glyph advance and both
flanking kern values (`kern(leftCp, ' ')` + `kern(' ', rightCp)`) into a
single fixed-point sum before the snap:
```cpp
return fp4::toPixel(spaceAdvanceFP + kern(leftCp, ' ') + kern(' ', rightCp));
```
This is the same single-snap pattern already used by `getTextAdvanceX`
for word widths.
### Changes
- **`GfxRenderer`**: Replaces `getSpaceKernAdjust()` with
`getSpaceAdvance()`. `getSpaceWidth()` is retained for the
single-space-word case in `measureWordWidth` where no adjacent-word kern
context is available.
- **`ParsedText`**: All four call sites (`computeLineBreaks`,
`computeHyphenatedLineBreaks`, and both loops in `extractLine`) updated
to use `getSpaceAdvance()`. The now-redundant `spaceWidth`
pre-computation and parameter are removed from all three internal layout
functions.
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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 to analyze for
correctness**_
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