Cool Reader for Kobo

[sergeyvl12]

Originally Posted by tshering

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, the list does not seem to get updated any longer.

Yes, starting from version 42 I use another approach.

[indyglow]

Originally Posted by sergeyvl12

Please give the link to dictionary and word to translate. I don't see any html tags in English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary. By the way. The external program - sdcv is used as dictionary. The same as in koreader.

Here is how dictionary definition appears on Cool Reader on my Kobo Aura HD (3.5.0).

[Sisela]

Does the current Coolreader release on KOBO(-GLO) support footnotes ???
It appears to be a silly question, but I have some epub-ebooks containing footnotes.
Calibre shows all footnotes of my epubs and I can link to them.
I know that Coolreader's settings menu shows an option for footnotes (enabled!), but I don't see any difference.
I would be glad for some advice.

[sergeyvl12]

Originally Posted by Sisela

Does the current Coolreader release on KOBO(-GLO) support footnotes ???
It appears to be a silly question, but I have some epub-ebooks containing footnotes.
Calibre shows all footnotes of my epubs and I can link to them.
I know that Coolreader's settings menu shows an option for footnotes (enabled!), but I don't see any difference.
I would be glad for some advice.

As far as I know, CR supports footnotes in fb2 format only.

[Lucas Malor]

A programming question: I'm trying port a web browser on Kobo. Since the browser has a GUI, I suppose it needs X. But there's no X on Kobo, apparently. It seems raw data are sent to the screen. If so, how do you solved this problem with Coolreader?

[sergeyvl12]

Originally Posted by Lucas Malor

A programming question: I'm trying port a web browser on Kobo. Since the browser has a GUI, I suppose it needs X. But there's no X on Kobo, apparently. It seems raw data are sent to the screen. If so, how do you solved this problem with Coolreader?

Qt can work without X. It has framebuffer back-end. Qt has also WebKit - built-in web browser engine. You even cat find some Qt/WebKit browser in enternet and try to compile is for Kobo. But the 2 things are needed for that:

1. Free time
2. Good Qt skills

I have no free time for that...

[Lucas Malor]

Thank you! Yes, I've already done it. Now I have only to understand why it does not work. I thought the problems is there's no X, but now I have to investigate further.

EDIT: found it:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/embedded-linux.html

I have to recompile Qt and also to modify the browser code, I suppose... oh my.

[pblasi]

Just installed CoolReader on my kobo aura and I love it! Finally a reader where I can adjust word-spacing! Thanks!

However, I cannot manage to make swipe gestures to control frontlight intensity. Is it a common issue? Can I make it work someway?

Thank you very much!

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by pblasi

However, I cannot manage to make swipe gestures to control frontlight intensity. Is it a common issue? Can I make it work someway?

Are you sure it doesn't work? I thought so as well but realized that I had to swipe quite a bit to see a change (because the increment is 1).

[pblasi]

Originally Posted by Jaden

Are you sure it doesn't work? I thought so as well but realized that I had to swipe quite a bit to see a change (because the increment is 1).

That's right, increment is only 1 for every swipe, so it makes this gesture quite useless... It would be great to have control over the full range of brightness with one swipe over the screen.

Thanks!

[pblasi]

About hyphenation... I'm using spanish hyphenation and it's quite good but not perfect. Some words are badly split at the end of the line. I would like to try other hyphen dictionaries instead of these "Alan.pdb". Do you know if it is possible to load and use "openoffice" or "libreoffice" hyphen dicts? How?

Thanks!

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by pblasi

That's right, increment is only 1 for every swipe, so it makes this gesture quite useless... It would be great to have control over the full range of brightness with one swipe over the screen.

That would be great. Otherwise you're really swiping a lot.

I only use the feature when I am reading in full dark and slowly go down from about 8% (or even lower) to 1% brightness while reading and while my eyes are adjusting to the darkness around.

[pblasi]

Hi,

I have and issue with text-alignment of subtitles in a book which should be centered, but after converting ebup-to-epub with Calibre (to remove fonts, margins, etc.) these subtitles appear to the left in Coolreader. (in Calibre's viewer and Kobo stock reader they are centered as they should be). CSS seems ok, so I don't understand why Coolreader does not center these lines:

.apple {
font-size: 2em
}
.salto1 {
display: block;
text-align: center;
text-indent: 0
}

Then in the book...

<p class="salto1"><code class="apple">subtitle that appears to the left, not centered</code></p>

I don't understand why...

Thanks for any help!

[j0r13n]

Originally Posted by pblasi

Hi,

I have and issue with text-alignment of subtitles in a book which should be centered, but after converting ebup-to-epub with Calibre (to remove fonts, margins, etc.) these subtitles appear to the left in Coolreader. (in Calibre's viewer and Kobo stock reader they are centered as they should be). CSS seems ok, so I don't understand why Coolreader does not center these lines

Thanks for any help!

Calibre´s Epub conversion often results in more than one css file as where Coolreader just can cope with one stylesheet.
Use Calibre´s´edit book´ function, select all files within the Styles Tab and choose Merge all selected style files...

[trekk]

Originally Posted by Jaden

That would be great. Otherwise you're really swiping a lot.

I only use the feature when I am reading in full dark and slowly go down from about 8% (or even lower) to 1% brightness while reading and while my eyes are adjusting to the darkness around.

You could just go to Settings > Control > Tap Zones and associate "Front Light" to a long tap. In the frontlight menu you can adjust the light without that much swiping