## Summary
Relative includes can hide inappropriate dependency relationships. In
this case, I found that lib/KOReaderSync/KOReaderCredentialStore.cpp was
dependent on src/JsonSettingsIO.h -- a lib -> app dependency, the
opposite direction dependencies should flow in this project.
This change replaces all relative includes with root-relative includes,
and corrects the KOReaderCredentialStore dependency by moving its JSON
settings serialization local to the KOReaderSync library.
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## Summary
This PR introduces **Focus Reading**, a generic implementation of
artificial fixation points (similar to Bionic Reading) designed to
improve reading speed and focus by bolding the initial characters of
words. This is achieved by dynamically bolding characters during
indexing.
<img width="500" alt="Focus Reading on X3"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/94a632a5-82da-47be-957c-538b35bf84d9"
/>
### Implementation Details
#### Core Text Engine (`ParsedText`)
- Modified `ParsedText::addWord` to implement a custom bolding
algorithm. It uses a 45% ratio for bolding, with a minimum of 1
character and a maximum of 9.
- UTF-8 Safety: Integrated `utf8NextCodepoint` to ensure character
counting and string slicing occur at safe byte boundaries, preventing
corruption of multi-byte characters (e.g., accented letters or smart
quotes).
- Intelligent Tokenization: This correctly identifies and separates
"word" characters (letters, apostrophes, hyphens) from "non-word"
characters (numbers, brackets, smart quotes).
- Formatting Preservation: The logic ensures that punctuation is not
"stolen" for the bolding count and that existing styles (like italics or
underlines) are preserved across the bold/regular split.
- Processing at indexing stage reduces CPU load at render-time and
ensures layout/fit is unaffected.
- Split details are tracked with `wordIsFocusSuffix`. After splitting
and layout, suffixes are merged back into their preceding word entries
to prevent a doubling of RAM usage.
#### Settings and UI
- Version Management: Bumped `SECTION_FILE_VERSION` to `21`
- Global Settings: Added `focusReadingEnabled` to `CrossPointSettings`.
- User Interface: Added a new toggle in the "Reader" section of the
settings menu, positioned after the "Embedded Style" option.
- Localization: Added the `STR_FOCUS_READING` string
#### Plumbing
- Plumbed the `focusReadingEnabled` boolean through
`EpubReaderActivity`, `Section`, and `ChapterHtmlSlimParser` to ensure
the user's setting reaches the `ParsedText` constructor during chapter
indexing.
## Additional Context
### Files Changed
- `lib/Epub/Epub/ParsedText.h / .cpp`: Core fixation logic and UTF-8
tokenization.
- `lib/Epub/Epub/Section.h / .cpp`: Cache header updates and
invalidation logic.
- `lib/Epub/Epub/parsers/ChapterHtmlSlimParser.h / .cpp`: Plumbing the
setting to text blocks.
- `src/CrossPointSettings.h`: Data persistence for the new setting.
- `src/SettingsList.h`: UI toggle implementation.
- `src/activities/reader/EpubReaderActivity.cpp`: Handling settings
changes during reading sessions.
- `lib/I18n/translations/*.yaml`: UI strings.
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## Summary
* Add new block style stack to track accumulated styles
* When dropping into nested block, apply new styles on last BlockStyle
in the stack and push to the back
* When leaving block, pop the stack
* Fix issue where the image % width always went off screen width, use
current container width based on accumulated styles
* Bump section cache version to regenerate pages
## Additional Context
Fixes https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1581
more correctly, and includes fix from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/1580
Consider:
```html
<div class="c1"> <!-- marginLeft: 10px -->
<div class="c2"> <!-- marginLeft: 20px -->
<p class="c3">text</p> <!-- marginLeft: 5px -->
</div>
<p class="c4">text2</p> <!-- marginLeft: 5px -->
</div>
```
| Element | Expected | Before #1581 (leaked) | After #1581 (reset) |
This PR (style stack) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `c3` | 10+20+5 = 35px | 35px | 25px | 35px |
| `c4` | 10+5 = 15px | 35px (wrong, leaked c2) | 5px (wrong, lost c1) |
15px |
This PR replaces the reset-on-close approach with a proper block style
stack. When a block element opens, its resolved style is pushed onto the
stack. When it closes, the stack pops back to the parent's style. This
correctly accumulates nested margins/padding while preventing style
leakage to siblings.
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---------
Co-authored-by: Zach Nelson <zach@zdnelson.com>
## Summary
- **What is the goal of this PR?** Fix chapter-opener text collapsing to
1-2 words per line in EPUBs that apply large em-based horizontal CSS
insets.
- **What changes are included?** Caps `marginLeft`, `marginRight`,
`paddingLeft`, and `paddingRight` at 2em in `BlockStyle::fromCssStyle`
(`lib/Epub/Epub/blocks/BlockStyle.h`). Vertical margins/padding are
unchanged - the bug is horizontal-only.
## Additional Context
**Repro:** *Mother Night* by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 21 ("My best
friend..."). The chapter-opening element's embedded CSS sets a large
horizontal inset.
- Settings: Embedded Style = On, Justify alignment (default).
- Before: 1-2 words per line with a visible river between them.
- After: body text fills the usable page width like every other
paragraph.
**Why the clamp lives in `fromCssStyle`:** This is the single point
where CSS lengths resolve to pixels, so clamping here keeps both
`effectiveWidth` call sites in `ChapterHtmlSlimParser` (`:1131-1133`
makePages, `:841-844` long-block split) consistent with the
`leftInset()` xOffset. A width-only clamp at either call site would
leave text pushed right by a large xOffset.
**Test plan:**
- [x] Flashed to Xteink X4. Chapter 21 of *Mother Night* renders
normally with Embedded Style on.
- Users with cached layouts of affected books need to delete
`.crosspoint/epub_<hash>/sections/` (or the whole `.crosspoint/`) on the
SD card to pick up the fix.
**Before / After:**
<p float="left">
<img height="400" alt="IMG_0320"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de8815ae-f2f4-4845-be1f-449c5a25d191"
/>
<img height="400" alt="IMG_0324"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/95f5f4cb-8aa1-418e-b611-18e0c342cbef"
/>
</p>
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I used Claude Code (Opus 4.7) to evaluate the codebase and find the
relevant code related to this rendering. From there, it was human
designed, reviewed and tested.
Co-authored-by: rhoopr <>
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
`DESTRUCTOR_CLOSES_FILE=1` is set in platformio.ini, which makes SdFat's
FsBaseFile destructor call close() automatically when a file goes out of
scope.
Three categories of file close calls remain untouched:
1. Close before Storage.remove() on the same path: ScreenshotUtil.cpp
closes the file before deleting it on write error. The remove might fail
if the file is still open.
2. Close before reopening the same variable: Epub.cpp writes a temp
NCX/nav file, closes it, then reopens it for reading. The
RecentBooksStore.cpp close before saveToFile() is the same pattern, it
rewrites the same file.
3. Close on member variables: BookMetadataCache.cpp (bookFile,
spineFile, tocFile), Section.cpp (file), XtcParser.cpp (m_file),
ZipFile.cpp (file). These persist beyond any single function scope, so
the destructor timing doesn't match the intended close point.
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## Summary
Replace per-pixel getRenderMode() + rotateCoordinates() + bounds checks
with a DirectPixelWriter struct that pre-computes orientation and render
mode state once per row. Use bitwise ops instead of division/modulo for
cache pixel packing. Skip PNG cache allocation when buffer exceeds 48KB
(framebuffer size) since PNG decode is fast enough that caching provides
minimal benefit, and the large buffer competes with the 44KB PNG decoder
for heap.
## Additional Context
Measured improvements on ESP32-C3 @ 160MHz:
- JPEG decode: 5-7% faster (1:1 scale)
- PNG decode: 15-20% faster (1:1 scale)
- Cache renders: 3-6% faster across both formats
- Eliminates "Failed to allocate cache buffer" errors for large PNGs
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Fixing two independent CSS rendering
bugs combined to make hanging-indent list styles
(e.g. margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em) render incorrectly:
* **What changes are included?**
1. Negative text-indent was silently ignored
Three guards in ParsedText.cpp (computeLineBreaks,
computeHyphenatedLineBreaks,
extractLine) conditioned firstLineIndent on blockStyle.textIndent > 0,
so any
negative value collapsed to zero. Additionally, wordXpos was uint16_t,
which
cannot represent negative offsets — a cast of e.g. −18 would wrap to
65518 and
render the word far off-screen.
2. extraParagraphSpacing suppressed hanging indents
Even after removing the > 0 guard, the existing !extraParagraphSpacing
condition
would still suppress all text-indent when that setting is on (its
default). Positive
text-indent is a decorative paragraph indent that the user can
reasonably replace with
vertical spacing — negative text-indent is structural (it positions the
list marker)
and must always apply.
3. em unit was calibrated against line height, not font size
emSize was computed as getLineHeight() * lineCompression (the full line
advance).
CSS em units are defined relative to the font-size, which corresponds to
the
ascender height — not the line height. Using line height makes every
em-based
margin/indent ~20–30% wider than a browser would render it, and is
especially
noticeable for CSS that uses font-size: small (which we do not
implement).
## Additional Context
Test case
```
.lsl1 { margin-left: 3em; text-indent: -1em; }
<div class="lsl1">• First list item that wraps across lines</div>
<div class="lsl1">• Short item</div>
```
Before: all lines of all items started at 3 em from the left edge
(indent ignored).
After: the bullet marker hangs at 2 em; continuation lines align at 3
em.
<img width="240" alt="before"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9dcbf3e0-fcd9-4af8-b451-a90ba4d2fb75"
/>
<img width="240" alt="after"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1ffdcf56-a180-4267-9590-c60d7ac44707"
/>
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?** Implement support for footnotes in epub
files.
It is based on #553, but simplified — removed the parts which
complicated the code and burden the CPU/RAM. This version supports basic
footnotes and lets the user jump from location to location inside the
epub.
**What changes are included?**
- `FootnoteEntry` struct — A small POD struct (number[24], href[64])
shared between parser, page storage, and UI.
- Parser: `<a href>` detection (`ChapterHtmlSlimParser`) — During a
single parsing pass, internal epub links are detected and collected as
footnotes. The link text is underlined to hint navigability.
Bracket/whitespace normalization is applied to the display label (e.g.
[1] → 1).
- Footnote-to-page assignment (`ChapterHtmlSlimParser`, `Page`) —
Footnotes are attached to the exact page where their anchor word
appears, tracked via a cumulative word counter during layout, surviving
paragraph splits and the 750-word mid-paragraph safety flush.
- Page serialization (`Page`, `Section`) — Footnotes are
serialized/deserialized per page (max 16 per page). Section cache
version bumped to 14 to force a clean rebuild.
- Href → spine resolution (`Epub`) — `resolveHrefToSpineIndex()` maps an
href (e.g. `chapter2.xhtml#note1`) to its spine index by filename
matching.
- Footnotes menu + activity (`EpubReaderMenuActivity`,
`EpubReaderFootnotesActivity`) — A new "Footnotes" entry in the reader
menu lists all footnote links found on the current page. The user
scrolls and selects to navigate.
- Navigate & restore (`EpubReaderActivity`) — `navigateToHref()` saves
the current spine index and page number, then jumps to the target. The
Back button restores the saved position when the user is done reading
the footnote.
**Additional Context**
**What was removed vs #553:** virtual spine items
(`addVirtualSpineItem`, `isVirtualSpineItem`), two-pass parsing,
`<aside>` content extraction to temp HTML files, `<p class="note">`
paragraph note extraction, `replaceHtmlEntities` (master already has
`lookupHtmlEntity`), `footnotePages` / `buildFilteredChapterList`,
`noterefCallback` / `Noteref` struct, and the stack size increase from 8
KB to 24 KB (not needed without two-pass parsing and virtual file I/O on
the render task).
**Performance:** Single-pass parsing. No new heap allocations in the hot
path — footnote text is collected into fixed stack buffers (char[24],
char[64]). Active runtime memory is ~2.8 KB worst-case (one page × 16
footnotes × 88 bytes, mirrored in `currentPageFootnotes`). Flash usage
is unchanged at 97.4%; RAM stays at 31%.
**Known limitations:** When clicking a footnote, it jumps to the start
of the HTML file instead of the specific anchor. This could be
problematic for books that don't have separate files for each footnote.
(no element-id-to-page mapping yet - will be another PR soon).
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Claude Opus 4.6 was used to do most of the migration, I checked manually
its work, and fixed some stuff, but I haven't review all the changes
yet, so feedback is welcomed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Arthur Tazhitdinov <lisnake@gmail.com>
## Summary
Fix redefinition of `FILE_*` macro.
Note that there will still be 2 warning:
```
.pio/libdeps/default/WebSockets/src/WebSocketsClient.cpp: In member function 'void WebSocketsClient::clientDisconnect(WSclient_t*, const char*)':
.pio/libdeps/default/WebSockets/src/WebSocketsClient.cpp:573:31: warning: 'virtual void NetworkClient::flush()' is deprecated: Use clear() instead. [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
573 | client->tcp->flush();
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
```
--> I assume the upstream library need to fix it
And:
```
src/activities/Activity.cpp:8:1: warning: 'noreturn' function does return
8 | }
| ^
```
Will be fixed in #1016
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## Summary
_Revision to @blindbat's #802. Description comes from the original PR._
- Replace `std::list` with `std::vector` for word storage in `TextBlock`
and `ParsedText`
- Use index-based access (`words[i]`) instead of iterator advancement
(`std::advance(it, n)`)
- Remove the separate `continuesVec` copy that was built from
`wordContinues` for O(1) access — now unnecessary since
`std::vector<bool>` already provides O(1) indexing
## Why
`std::list` allocates each node individually on the heap with 16 bytes
of prev/next pointer overhead per node. For text layout with many small
words, this means:
- Scattered heap allocations instead of contiguous memory
- Poor cache locality during iteration (each node can be anywhere in
memory)
- Per-node malloc/free overhead during construction and destruction
`std::vector` stores elements contiguously, giving better cache
performance during the tight rendering and layout loops. The
`extractLine` function also benefits: list splice was O(1) but required
maintaining three parallel iterators, while vector range construction
with move iterators is simpler and still efficient for the small
line-sized chunks involved.
## Files changed
- `lib/Epub/Epub/blocks/TextBlock.h` / `.cpp`
- `lib/Epub/Epub/ParsedText.h` / `.cpp`
## AI Usage
YES
## Test plan
- [ ] Open an EPUB with mixed formatting (bold, italic, underline) —
verify text renders correctly
- [ ] Open a book with justified text — verify word spacing is correct
- [ ] Open a book with hyphenation enabled — verify words break
correctly at hyphens
- [ ] Navigate through pages rapidly — verify no rendering glitches or
crashes
- [ ] Open a book with long paragraphs — verify text layout matches
pre-change behavior
---------
Co-authored-by: Kuanysh Bekkulov <kbekkulov@gmail.com>
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
This change fixes an issue I noticed while reading where occasionally,
especially in italics, some words would have too much space between
them. The problem was that word width calculations were including any
negative X overhang, and combined with a space before the word, that can
lead to an inconsistently large space.
## Additional Context
Screenshots of some problematic text:
| In CrossPoint 1.0 | With this change |
| -- | -- |
| <img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/87bf0e4b-341f-4ba9-b3ea-38c13bd26363"
width="400" /> | <img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bf11ba20-c297-4ce1-aa07-43477ef86fc2"
width="400" /> |
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Skip constructing a `std::string` just to get the underlying `c_str()`
buffer, when a string literal gives the same end result.
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## Summary
- EPUB books with PNG cover images now display covers on the home screen
instead of blank rectangles
- Adds `PngToBmpConverter` library mirroring the existing
`JpegToBmpConverter` pattern
- Uses miniz (already in the project) for streaming zlib decompression
of PNG IDAT data
- Supports all PNG color types (Grayscale, RGB, RGBA, Palette,
Gray+Alpha)
- Optimized for ESP32-C3: batch grayscale conversion, 2KB read buffer,
same area-averaging scaling and Atkinson dithering as the JPEG path
## Changes
- **New:** `lib/PngToBmpConverter/PngToBmpConverter.h` — Public API
matching JpegToBmpConverter's interface
- **New:** `lib/PngToBmpConverter/PngToBmpConverter.cpp` — Streaming PNG
decoder + BMP converter
- **Modified:** `lib/Epub/Epub.cpp` — Added `.png` handling in
`generateCoverBmp()` and `generateThumbBmp()`
## Test plan
- [x] Tested with EPUB files using PNG covers — covers appear correctly
on home screen
- [ ] Verify with various PNG color types (most stock EPUBs use 8-bit
RGB)
- [ ] Confirm no regressions with JPEG cover EPUBs
<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->
## Summary by CodeRabbit
**New Features**
- Added PNG format support for EPUB cover and thumbnail images. PNG
files are automatically processed and cached alongside existing
supported formats. This enhancement enables users to leverage PNG cover
artwork when generating EPUB files, improving workflow flexibility and
compatibility with common image sources.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
---------
Co-authored-by: Nik Outchcunis <outchy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
- Add embedded image support to EPUB rendering with JPEG and PNG
decoders
- Implement pixel caching system to cache decoded/dithered images to SD
card for faster re-rendering
- Add 4-level grayscale support for display
## Changes
### New Image Rendering System
- Add `ImageBlock` class to represent an image with its cached path and
display dimensions
- Add `PageImage` class as a new `PageElement` type for images on pages
- Add `ImageToFramebufferDecoder` interface for format-specific image
decoders
- Add `JpegToFramebufferConverter` - JPEG decoder with Bayer dithering
and scaling
- Add `PngToFramebufferConverter` - PNG decoder with Bayer dithering and
scaling
- Add `ImageDecoderFactory` to select appropriate decoder based on file
extension
- Add `getRenderMode()` to GfxRenderer for grayscale render mode queries
### Dithering and Grayscale
- Implement 4x4 Bayer ordered dithering for 4-level grayscale output
- Stateless algorithm works correctly with MCU block decoding
- Handles scaling without artifacts
- Add grayscale render mode support (BW, GRAYSCALE_LSB, GRAYSCALE_MSB)
- Image decoders and cache renderer respect current render mode
- Enables proper 4-level e-ink grayscale when anti-aliasing is enabled
### Pixel Caching
- Cache decoded/dithered images to `.pxc` files on SD card
- Cache format: 2-bit packed pixels (4 pixels per byte) with
width/height header
- On subsequent renders, load directly from cache instead of re-decoding
- Cache renderer supports grayscale render modes for multi-pass
rendering
- Significantly improves page navigation speed for image-heavy EPUBs
### HTML Parser Integration
- Update `ChapterHtmlSlimParser` to process `<img>` tags and extract
images from EPUB
- Resolve relative image paths within EPUB ZIP structure
- Extract images to cache directory before decoding
- Create `PageImage` elements with proper scaling to fit viewport
- Fall back to alt text display if image processing fails
### Build Configuration
- Add `PNG_MAX_BUFFERED_PIXELS=6402` to support up to 800px wide images
### Test Script
- Generate test EPUBs with annotated JPEG and PNG images
- Test cases cover: grayscale (4 levels), centering, scaling, cache
performance
## Test plan
- [x] Open EPUB with JPEG images - verify images display with proper
grayscale
- [x] Open EPUB with PNG images - verify images display correctly and no
crash
- [x] Navigate away from image page and back - verify faster load from
cache
- [x] Verify grayscale tones render correctly (not just black/white
dithering)
- [x] Verify large images are scaled down to fit screen
- [x] Verify images are centered horizontally
- [x] Verify page serialization/deserialization works with images
- [x] Verify images rendered in landscape mode
## Test Results
[png](https://photos.app.goo.gl/5zFUb8xA8db3dPd19)
[jpeg](https://photos.app.goo.gl/SwtwaL2DSQwKybhw7)
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---------
Co-authored-by: Matthías Páll Gissurarson <mpg@mpg.is>
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
* Definition and use of a central LOG function, that can later be
extended or completely be removed (for public use where debugging
information may not be required) to save flash by suppressing the
-DENABLE_SERIAL_LOG like in the slim branch
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
* By using the central logger the usual:
```
#include <HardwareSerial.h>
...
Serial.printf("[%lu] [WCS] Obfuscating/deobfuscating %zu bytes\n", millis(), data.size());
```
would then become
```
#include <Logging.h>
...
LOG_DBG("WCS", "Obfuscating/deobfuscating %zu bytes", data.size());
```
You do have ``LOG_DBG`` for debug messages, ``LOG_ERR`` for error
messages and ``LOG_INF`` for informational messages. Depending on the
verbosity level defined (see below) soe of these message types will be
suppressed/not-compiled.
* The normal compilation (default) will create a firmware.elf file of
42.194.356 bytes, the same code via slim will create 42.024.048 bytes -
170.308 bytes less
* Firmware.bin : 6.469.984 bytes for default, 6.418.672 bytes for slim -
51.312 bytes less
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---------
Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
## Summary
- Closes#730
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds percentage-based value support to CSS properties that accept
percentages (padding, margin, text-indent)
**What changes are included?**
- Adds `Percent` as another CSS unit
- Passes the viewport width to `fromCssStyle` so that we can resolve
percentage-based values
- Adds a fallback of using an emspace for text-indent if we have an
unresolvable value for whatever reason
## Additional Context
- This was missed in my CSS support feature, and the fallback when we
encounter a percentage value is to use px instead. This means 5% (which
would be ~30px on the screen) turns into 5px. When percentages are used
in `text-indent`, this fallback behavior makes the indent look like a
single space character. Whoops! 😬
My test EPUB has been updated
[here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub) with percentage based
CSS values at the end of the book.
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## Summary
Continue my changes to introduce the HAL infrastructure from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/522
This PR touches quite a lot of files, but most of them are just name
changing. It should not have any impacts to the end behavior.
## Additional Context
My plan is to firstly add this small shim layer, which sounds useless at
first, but then I'll implement an emulated driver which can be helpful
for testing and for development.
Currently, on my fork, I'm using a FS driver that allow "mounting" a
local directory from my computer to the device, much like the `-v` mount
option on docker. This allows me to quickly reset `.crosspoint`
directory if anything goes wrong. I plan to upstream this feature when
this PR get merged.
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Closes#712
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- To add new settings for toggling on/off embedded CSS styles in the
reader. This gives more control and customization to the user over how
the ereader experience looks.
**What changes are included?**
- Added new "Embedded Style" option to the Reader settings
- Added new "Book's Style" option for "Paragraph Alignment"
- User's selected "Paragraph Alignment" will take precedence and
override the embedded CSS `text-align` property, _unless_ the user has
"Book's Style" set as their "Paragraph Alignment"
## Additional Context
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e404b13-c7e0-41c7-9406-4715f389166a
Addresses feedback from the community about the new CSS feature:
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/700
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### AI Usage
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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 Code
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds basic CSS parsing to EPUBs and determine the CSS rules when
rendering to the screen so that text is styled correctly. Currently
supports bold, underline, italics, margin, padding, and text alignment
## Additional Context
- My main reason for wanting this is that the book I'm currently
reading, Carl's Doomsday Scenario (2nd in the Dungeon Crawler Carl
series), relies _a lot_ on styled text for telling parts of the story.
When text is bolded, it's supposed to be a message that's rendered
"on-screen" in the story. When characters are "chatting" with each
other, the text is bolded and their names are underlined. Plus, normal
emphasis is provided with italicizing words here and there. So, this
greatly improves my experience reading this book on the Xteink, and I
figured it was useful enough for others too.
- For transparency: I'm a software engineer, but I'm mostly frontend and
TypeScript/JavaScript. It's been _years_ since I did any C/C++, so I
would not be surprised if I'm doing something dumb along the way in this
code. Please don't hesitate to ask for changes if something looks off. I
heavily relied on Claude Code for help, and I had a lot of inspiration
from how [microreader](https://github.com/CidVonHighwind/microreader)
achieves their CSS parsing and styling. I did give this as good of a
code review as I could and went through everything, and _it works on my
machine_ 😄
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### AI Usage
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## Summary
* Update EpdFontFamily::Style to be u8 instead of u32 (saving 3 bytes
per word)
* Update layout width/height to be u16 from int
* Update page element count to be u16 from u32
* Update text block element count to be u16 from u32
* Bumped section bin version to version 8
## Summary
* Swap to updated SDCardManager which uses SdFat
* Add exFAT support
* Swap to using FsFile everywhere
* Use newly exposed `SdMan` macro to get to static instance of
SDCardManager
* Move a bunch of FsHelpers up to SDCardManager
## Summary
* Consolidate chapter page data into single file
* Header structure of the file stays the same, following the page count,
we now put a LUT offset
* The page data is all then appended to this file
* Finally the LUT is appended to the end of the file, and the page count
is updated
* This will also significantly improve the duration of cache cleanup
which takes a while to scan the directory and cleanup content
* Remove page file version as it's all tied up into the section file now
* Bumped section file version to 7
* Moved section content into sub directory
* Updated docs
## Additional Context
* Benchmarks:
* Generating 74 pages of content from a chapter in Jade Legacy took:
* master: 6,229ms
* this PR: 1,305ms
* Speedup of 79%
* Generating 207 pages of content from Livesuit book:
* With progress bar UI updates:
* master: 24,250ms
* this PR: 8,063ms
* Speedup of 67%
* Without progress bar UI updates:
* master: 13,055ms
* this PR: 3,600ms
* Speedup of 72%
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Improve reliability and user experience during chapter indexing by
adding retry logic for SD card operations and a visual progress bar.
* **What changes are included?**
- **Retry logic**: Add 3 retry attempts with 50ms delay for ZIP to SD
card streaming to handle timing issues after display refresh
- **Progress bar**: Display a visual progress bar (0-100%) during
chapter indexing based on file read progress, updating every 10% to
balance responsiveness with e-ink display limitations
## Additional Context
* **Problem observed**: When navigating quickly through books with many
chapters (before chapter titles finish rendering), the "Indexing..."
screen would appear frozen. Checking the serial log revealed the
operation had silently failed, but the UI showed no indication of this.
Users would likely assume the device had crashed. Pressing the next
button again would resume operation, but this behavior was confusing and
unexpected.
* **Solution**:
- Retry logic handles transient SD card timing failures automatically,
so users don't need to manually retry
- Progress bar provides visual feedback so users know indexing is
actively working (not frozen)
* **Why timing issues occur**: After display refresh operations, there
can be timing conflicts when immediately starting SD card write
operations. This is more likely to happen when rapidly navigating
through chapters.
* **Progress bar design**: Updates every 10% to avoid excessive e-ink
refreshes while still providing meaningful feedback during long indexing
operations (especially for large chapters with CJK characters).
* **Performance**: Minimal overhead - progress calculation is simple
byte counting, and display updates use `FAST_REFRESH` mode.
* First pass at moving to SDK EInkDisplay library
* Add 2-bit grayscale text and anti-aliased rendering of text
* Render status bar for empty chapters
* Refresh screen every 15 pages to avoid ghosting
* Simplify boot and sleep screens
* Give FileSelectionScreen task more stack memory
* Move text around slightly on Boot and Sleep screens
* Re-use existing buffer and write to whole screen for 'partial update'
* Add expat and swap out ERB HTML parser
* Increase EpubHtmlParserSlim file buffer to 1024 bytes
* Cleanup TextBlock functions
* Do not break words when leaving spans
