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Old 01-17-2012, 01:17 PM   #31
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Wonderful!!!!!!! One quick question: Is there any way to change the "Original" font setting as well? Or is it simply impossible to do so?
Original is one setting I would leave alone. It means how the books looks without changing things. Some books such as 11/22/63 have embedded fonts that should be there for the best looking read.
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Original is one setting I would leave alone. It means how the books looks without changing things. Some books such as 11/22/63 have embedded fonts that should be there for the best looking read.
Do you mean that changing the Original font mapping will invalidate embedded fonts in ebook files? If then, I agree that it's better left alone.

I wish in the Sony internal Settings, there is a default font choice setting as well as the (current) default font size setting.
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Do you mean that changing the Original font mapping will invalidate embedded fonts in ebook files? If then, I agree that it's better left alone.

I wish in the Sony internal Settings, there is a default font choice setting as well as the (current) default font size setting.
There is a default font size setting someplace in the options.

Yes, changing original will change the original look of the ePub. It may not invalidate embedded fonts. It depends on how they are set in the CSS.
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...and here it is! Stock Reader with custom fonts in the select-a-font-thingy (and the italic/bold-fix, of course).

Fonts are specified in /sdcard/fonts/fonts.xml, and if that file is not found or cannot be read it falls back to the stock fonts.

"Screenshots" attached, with exaggerated fonts to make it clear that it works (the reason "Bold italicized text" is not italicized in one of the images is that I had no bold-italic file for that font, so i set the bold file as bold-italic).

As you can see, the "Selected Font Type" thingy does not show the custom font name for now; it consists of a bunch of hard coded button resources and so requires a bit of extra work to replace.

File: http://morkl.se/reader/readermod_v2.zip (contains loose apk as well as installer for non-rooted devices; and fonts folder with sample settings)
This new mod works quite well overall. I did find one bug. When using the fonts.xml file to add/change what fonts are available via Sony's menu, after I select one of my installed fonts, the name displayed as to what font it is is a different name. The last font in the list gave me a title of Verdana.
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Morkl - great work! I installed this last night but didn't have a chance to play with it until my train ride this morning. I've also installed your homescreen mod, and that in combination with the reader mod works really well. I'll echo the comments of others here about what a great job you've done in a short amount of time. Some extra karma coming your way.

Now, I'm eagerly awaiting the user css next .

Could this be done as simply as replacing one of the existing font-face directives in the smali code? For example, replace

@font-face{ font-family: %s; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; src: url(%s);}

with

@font-face{ font-family: %s; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; src: url(%s);}
@import url(res:///ebook/fonts/../../mnt/sdcard/css/my.css);

I've previously determined that referencing a CSS that doesn't exist doesn't cause problems. If that works, then (hopefully!) it can be made an option but this (should!) be a simple way of verifying that it's that simple to deal with.

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This new mod works quite well overall. I did find one bug. When using the fonts.xml file to add/change what fonts are available via Sony's menu, after I select one of my installed fonts, the name displayed as to what font it is is a different name. The last font in the list gave me a title of Verdana.
I noticed this too this morning. That looks like the list in the "selected font" box is using the original hard-coded Sony list. Hopefully it's as simple as Morkl overriding the Sony font list in one more place.

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Do you mean that changing the Original font mapping will invalidate embedded fonts in ebook files? If then, I agree that it's better left alone.

I wish in the Sony internal Settings, there is a default font choice setting as well as the (current) default font size setting.
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There is a default font size setting someplace in the options.

Yes, changing original will change the original look of the ePub. It may not invalidate embedded fonts. It depends on how they are set in the CSS.
When changing font, the "serif" and "sans-serif" font-families are overridden, so any text that uses one of those (i.e. hasn't specified an explicit font-family) is rendered in the selected font.

However, as far as I know, if a book has its own @font-face declarations, they override any ones (of the same font-family) previously generated by the reader (which is why fonts with @font-face declarations look the same no matter what font is chosen in the select-a-font)? If the embedded fonts as declared as font-family="not serif or sans-serif" they won't be affected by the select-a-font.

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This new mod works quite well overall. I did find one bug. When using the fonts.xml file to add/change what fonts are available via Sony's menu, after I select one of my installed fonts, the name displayed as to what font it is is a different name. The last font in the list gave me a title of Verdana.
Do you mean above the font sizes, like shown here? That's what I meant with
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As you can see, the "Selected Font Type" thingy does not show the custom font name for now; it consists of a bunch of hard coded button resources and so requires a bit of extra work to replace.
I'm well aware of it and I will fix it in a not too distant future I hope
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Do you mean above the font sizes, like shown here? That's what I meant with
Yes, the name of the font above the font size selections. Where your photo shows Univers Next.

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That would be nice but if not, it's not really a big deal to live with.
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@import url(res:///ebook/fonts/../../mnt/sdcard/css/my.css);
@Morkl,

Just a FYI. If you do plan on using @import to provide the custom CSS feature then I believe it needs to be the first thing in any internally generated CSS file, i.e. all @import rules come before any @font-face rules.
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Morkl - great work! I installed this last night but didn't have a chance to play with it until my train ride this morning. I've also installed your homescreen mod, and that in combination with the reader mod works really well. I'll echo the comments of others here about what a great job you've done in a short amount of time. Some extra karma coming your way.

Now, I'm eagerly awaiting the user css next .

Could this be done as simply as replacing one of the existing font-face directives in the smali code? For example, replace

@font-face{ font-family: %s; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; src: url(%s);}

with

@font-face{ font-family: %s; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; src: url(%s);}
@import url(res:///ebook/fonts/../../mnt/sdcard/css/my.css);

I've previously determined that referencing a CSS that doesn't exist doesn't cause problems. If that works, then (hopefully!) it can be made an option but this (should!) be a simple way of verifying that it's that simple to deal with.



I noticed this too this morning. That looks like the list in the "selected font" box is using the original hard-coded Sony list. Hopefully it's as simple as Morkl overriding the Sony font list in one more place.

Cheers,
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Never realized the PRS-T1 handles @import statements. That made the custom CSS a whole lot simpler.

New version posted here (just uploaded it; should be available soon). Loose apk and installer for non-rooted devices included.

It just prepends "@import url(res:///ebook/fonts/../../mnt/sdcard/css/style.css);" to the CSS (i.e. /mnt/sdcard/css/style.css is loaded if it is there).

Would a setting for the file name be useful? I'm thinking, if you're able to modify the settings you're probably able to rename the file just as well, no?
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Just a FYI. If you do plan on using @import to provide the custom CSS feature then I believe it needs to be the first thing in any internally generated CSS file, i.e. all @import rules come before any @font-face rules.
I found that out the hard way about an hour ago

Interestingly, since the custom CSS is loaded before the @font-face declarations, one can put @font-face declarations for font-family "serif" and "sans-serif" in the custom CSS to replace the original font, since they are overridden by the generated declarations for any non-original font.
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Would a setting for the file name be useful? I'm thinking, if you're able to modify the settings you're probably able to rename the file just as well, no?
What would be very useful is an on-device app which lists all your custom .css files contained in the /mnt/sdcard/css directory and lets you pick a new default when you want to change fonts or font-sizes or whatever else.

Not having to connect to the PC to make the change would be very convenient. It could be as simple as just copying the selected .css file to the fixed filename style.css in the same directory. Then your modded reader app would work as-is. This is how the PRSPlus custom firmware for the older Sony models handles this feature.
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Morkl,

Again thanks much for the good work. By the way, I'm using the latest version, and found that the font size setting doesn't follow the global setting value (System Settings -> Application Preferences -> Books/Periodicals -> Font Size Preference). I've set the system setting value to a larger font size (the third smallest), but the font size of all the new books that I open with your modded reader app is the system's initial default value, which is the second smallest.

FYI, just in case you weren't aware of this issue.

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Can margins, alignment or line spacing be set in style.css? I tried

html { text-align: justify; }

but perhaps I have the wrong syntax.
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There's no reason why you can't set those properties. I set line-height and font-size in mine.

If it's not working for a particular epub it's probably because some of the css inside the epub is more specific and is overriding your top level setting. This is particularly likely if you created your epub using Calibre, depending on the conversion settings you used.

You can try and add more to your style.css to combat the epub's own css. If you are a Calibre user you could try something like
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body, body.calibre, body.calibre1, body.calibre2, body.calibre3
    {text-align: justify; 
      line-height: ???; 
      margin-left: ???; 
      margin-right: ???}
filling in the ??? with whatever values you want.

If that still doesn't work, you could try changing the first line to
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body, body.calibre, body.calibre1, body.calibre2, body.calibre3, div, p
If it still doesn't work (and it's a non-DRM'd epub) it's likely that you would need examine the epub css and manually remove the text-align, line-height, margin settings which are stopping your style.css working.

I'm afraid, with epubs there's no "automatic magic solution" which works 100% of the time.

An alternative option is to use one of the other epub reading apps (FBReader, CoolReader) rather than the Sony reader or Morkl's much improved modified version. You would need to root your T1 to do that. Those apps ignore most (all???) the css inside the epub and let you define your own settings. This is why many people like these apps. The problem is that you may not want ALL the epub css to be ignored if it's a well-formatted epub. In this case the Sony app is better option, especially with Morkl's changes. You just have to decide which approach you prefer.

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