Thread: Nice hack by some Chinese programmer!
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Old 06-09-2009, 03:15 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Lbooker View Post
Could anyone help me understand how they did it? Could we format some books that way, for example to make some bilingual editions of Shakespeare, and read them in CoolReader?
Is it just a hack to add the Microsoft Chinese Yahei font:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_YaHei
That is what I gather from the Savethefile link in one of the discussions. And from the google translation page, I understood that they indeed added that Chinese font and hacked the fb2 reader to get that nice result.
I have to try the fb2 format to see if I can get english texts to print over two columns.
As far as I know, the V3 can already display Chinese characters, and the newest version of CoolReader has an option for a two-column display in horizontal display mode. So all they probably needed to do is to hack the firmware to use the newest CoolReader for displaying fb2 files.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I'm wrong, though. :-)
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