Cool Reader on Android

[rfog]

Originally Posted by eMole

Error in ImportEpubDocument.cpp:
line:
if ( codeBase.length()>0 && codeBase.lastChar()!='/' )
codeBase.append(1, L'/');

is platform dependent (does not work on Windows).

(I know this is an Android thread, but Buggins might read this one)

if that codeBase is a string representing a file name, Windows understands / as directory separator due it's Posix compatibility layer.

[eMole]

The above code appends an unnecessary slash after a backslash, too, confusing code further on. The end result is there's no TOC displayed for many ePubs (where the content is zipped in the root, without subfolders). Solution: watch out for backslash too, not just forwardslash.

[Mastiff]

Is it possible to stop Cool Reader from starting in "Recent books"? I read new stuff every day, and that means that I always get one page with only the Cool Reader Manual and have to go back from Recent books and then into the SD Card. In fact I'd love it if I could start in a directory of my own choice. So is that possible? Thanks in advance!

[eMole]

An ePub CSS support question:
Are multiple classes within one attribute supposed to work?
Like <p class="bold italic">

[Rand Brittain]

Well, adding "body {page-break-before: always;}" to the epub.css has stopped CoolReader from displaying the book as a single chapter even in paged mode, so that's nice.

I still haven't found a way to get the top-margin working on the first item in a given section of the epub, though. That always seems to wind up with no margin. Has this even gotten accepted as a bug? I know I've filed an issue in the past.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by Rand Brittain

Has this even gotten accepted as a bug? I know I've filed an issue in the past.

To check if your bug report has been accepted you can check the bug tracker where you are supposed to file CoolReader bugs here

[eMole]

You might want to tinker with fb2.css as well. Looks like it gets loaded before anything regardless the book format.
I think customization issues with those css files are not considered bugs. I could solve two issues I considered bugs just by setting a few lines in epub.css to Web defaults.

[Rand Brittain]

Hm, I don't think I have an fb2.css file. What things could I put in one that might fix the problem?

[eMole]

Not sure what you mean by that top-margin issue.
If you mean page breaks are omitted after h1, h2, h3, try the following in your epub.css:
h1, h2, h3, .title, .title1, .title2, .title3 {
page-break-before: auto;
page-break-inside: avoid;
page-break-after: auto;
}

[Rand Brittain]

Originally Posted by eMole

Not sure what you mean by that top-margin issue.
If you mean page breaks are omitted after h1, h2, h3, try the following in your epub.css:
h1, h2, h3, .title, .title1, .title2, .title3 {
page-break-before: auto;
page-break-inside: avoid;
page-break-after: auto;
}

No, I mean that whenever there's a page break inside the epub, like, say, because I've moved from one xhtml document inside the epub to the next, the first item has no margin-top, even when it should.

[camper120]

I like the prog and I wonder if there is a way to read right to left (RTL) using this reader. The reader shows the ePub file fine (after I added a few Hebrew fonts) but the direction is wrong.

I wonder if there is a way, some setting, to direct the reader to RTL. I know Moon+ can do it but I'd rather stay with Cool Reader.

[Dopedangel]

New a version of cooreader is out it mostly has gui improvements from what I can tell

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cren...er3/cr3-3.1.0/

[naisren]

please support Chinese characters selection

I spent a lot of time to compare cool reader with other ebook readers, and found it is way ahead to others.
With epub format support, it beats others.
For English or Russian text selection, cool reader is excellent too.
But for a Chinese learner, I find it is very difficult to choose two more Chinese characters, the selection helper bar at bottom does work but differently from En or Ru articles, the bar refuses to help select charaters, and just selects paragraph by paragraph.
For example here, I want to choose "山水" to look up, but at any attempt, I could select only one character "山" or "水".

[ncguy68]

Is there a way to change where books are saved when imported using the Calibre File Server vias OPDS? By default it saves books in sdcard/books and it saves them into sub folders. I would like to save books in a different location and not use sub folders. Is this possible?

[citac]

And I was pleasantly surprised by finding I can mark a book as reading, finished etc. as I often reread my books and keep them on my reader. I was actually going to ask if we can add a tag to a book by long-press? Is there such an option I might have missed?