KOReader: a document reader for PDF, DJVU, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ... (GPLv3)

[font332]

Originally Posted by knc1

one of those other files that one "requires" near the top of the file.

My english and thinking capabilities are quite poor, don't know how to interpret this. It means that I have to look through else 409 files that are in "koreader" folder and search for word "Font" and check if it changed what I wanted?

Originally Posted by knc1

Meanwhile, enjoy your re-sized File Manager title.

Ha ha

[knc1]

Originally Posted by font332

My english and thinking capabilities are quite poor, don't know how to interpret this. It means that I have to look through else 409 files that are in "koreader" folder and search for word "Font" and check if it changed what I wanted?



Ha ha

Not you, but somebody.
Unless one of the authors that have it memorized answers here.

PS:
the grep command is what is used to search for a string in a tree of files.

[font332]

Originally Posted by knc1

the grep command is what is used to search for a string in a tree of files

Again, not sure if understood correctly, don't know what grep command is and where, but if so I could use program called Agent Ransack

Spoiler:

Thanks You again knc1 for the interest

[knc1]

As you have probably read, I last used Windows in the days of Win95 - so I am not an expert.

But yes, that looks like a string search program that can do the job for you.

[medwatt]

I have tested the last stable build on my onyx i86. I have to say, it displays the books perfectly. In fact, I noticed that after each page turn, the text is very crisp and devoid of any ghosting. The only reason why I won't be using this now is because it doesn't support external dictionary and I'm not a fan of the stardict format.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by medwatt

I have tested the last stable build on my onyx i86. I have to say, it displays the books perfectly. In fact, I noticed that after each page turn, the text is very crisp and devoid of any ghosting. The only reason why I won't be using this now is because it doesn't support external dictionary and I'm not a fan of the stardict format.

What dictionary format do you recommend?

[timofonic]

Originally Posted by knc1

What dictionary format do you recommend?

https://github.com/kernel1024/goldendict-lib + https://github.com/dohliam/gdcl = complete lightweight goldendict library would be amazing, but impossible to happen (they get money with their commercial Android app).

If it supports ColorDict, it will run in GoldenDict and others

(moving topic? )

[knc1]

Originally Posted by timofonic

https://github.com/kernel1024/goldendict-lib + https://github.com/dohliam/gdcl = complete lightweight goldendict library would be amazing, but impossible to happen (they get money with their commercial Android app).

If it supports ColorDict, it will run in GoldenDict and others

(moving topic? )

I would not say impossible just because there is a commercial use of the open sourced library.

The (nearly defunct) Duokan project is probably a good example of open source (ours) used for commercial purposes.

[Markismus]

@timofonic I have been looking in that direction, too. However, gdcl is just a wrapper and it's written in Ruby. Both would introduce serious performance penalties. Still, it's a hopeful development.

For now Chrox seems to have a good grasp of sdcv and has introduced a few meaningful enhancements into koreader's dictionary use. Especially, the option to look up a word in the dictionary itself is nice, since it will allow for the use of synonyms.

That part of the development will be strengthened when I finally get around to sort the 8GB tarball of the Stardict dictionaries into those unburdened by copyright and those not, make them available in a repo and write an dictionary download plugin together with chrox.

This would also alleviate the problem mentioned: "For users of GoldenDict who have large collections of dictionaries in other formats (e.g. DSL or BGL), converting and maintaining two parallel sets of dictionaries is not a practical solution." A separately maintained repo for uncopyrighted automatically downloadable Stardict libraries seems a rather practical solutions if it becomes a community effort. All we seem to need is a good start with the sorting of the 8GB tarball.

What would be nice is a separate dictionary plugin, that would allow for less sparse dictionary entries: with images and preformatted text. The performance penalties due to ruby-to-lua-wrapper, command-line-to-goldendict-wrapper and the goldendict dictionary itself would than be something the user can choose to use or not.

[Enor]

Hi all, I know there is a visual tutorial at the beginning of this thread on how to do this, but I cannot get the font resize menu to show up. Just installed KOReader (latest nightly build, I think) and the font menu just will not show up. Any hints on this?

[NiLuJe]

@Enor: If you are indeed using the latest nightly, try with the latest stable, on the off-chance something wonky happened recently.

Also, on which device is this (the device info of your forum profile is empty)?

[SymmetryrtemmyS]

I was wondering if anyone might be willing to help me with KPV Booklet. I tried downloading the update bin from this page, and "Update Device" is greyed out after I place it in /mnt/us. So next, I tried modifying the build-updates.sh for "-d pw2" but zip is not a command on my system. I added kindletool to my PATH and used it to create an update bin, but it gave me the same error as initially - that is, I place the update bin in the root folder and it disappears. I did all of this with BackDoorLock disabled, just in case that would interfere, but no dice.

I don't know what to do next or how to install this, but I'd really like native browsing with KOReader interface. Is there an easy method that I'm missing somehow? Did I do a step wrong?

Windows 8.1, Kindle PW2 90D4

[NiLuJe]

@SymmetryrtemmyS:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

IMPORTANT: I have to insist on the fact that on FW >= 5.5.x, using MRPI is REQUIRED to install custom packages!

[SymmetryrtemmyS]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@SymmetryrtemmyS:

I forgot to mention that I had tried that, but apparently I had put it in /mnt/us/, not in /mnt/us/mrpackages.

I tried again, and it's working perfectly now. Thanks!

[Enor]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@Enor: If you are indeed using the latest nightly, try with the latest stable, on the off-chance something wonky happened recently.

Also, on which device is this (the device info of your forum profile is empty)?

Thanks, NiluJe,
I actually thought it might be a problem, so I just went to the Stable version. The problem was my own fault. the one part of the tutorial that I either missed or didn't understand was to follow the whole thing, but at the end, tap on the top bar again and the font bar shows up on the bottom.

It's working now. (PW3)