Hi All,
Some of you may recognise me as the developer of the Freda e-reader app, which has been available on Windows for a very long time, and has been on Android for the past couple of years.
The thread interests me because I've lately been doing more work on:
- Properly parsing and applying CSS styles (using, believe it or not, my own hand-built xhtml renderer)
- EPUB3 compatibility (semantic markup, such as sections, and nav documents)
- Accessibility features (such as keyboard navigation by section and paragraph)
- Text-to-speech.
My new renderer comes with features (like Moon+ but perhaps a bit less daunting) to let you selectively turn of parts of the CSS styling (font selection, spacing, colour scheme). I would be very much interested to get feedback from the folks in this thread, regarding what Freda is getting right and wrong in this respect (and any other).
As regards the discussion on text-to-speech, so far, I didn't find any Android text-to-speech engines that give proper (or indeed any) treatment to the SSML emphasis tag. Whereas the Windows TTS engine does handle it reasonably sensibly.