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02-09-2015, 04:56 AM | #17 |
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Patch for Arabic book titles
This patch changes the font style used for book titles from italic to normal, which fixes a problem with displaying book titles in Arabic on the Glo/Aura/AuraHD/H2O. (Edit: I don't think the problem occurs on the Touch/Mini.)
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Edit: Note that the Arabic glyphs will not be displayed immediately after restarting the device, it is necessary to open a book and maybe to access the Aa font settings menu before they will be available to the rest of the UI. Last edited by GeoffR; 02-10-2015 at 09:50 PM. Reason: Updated patch to also change titles in book details view |
02-09-2015, 02:34 PM | #18 |
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Could you include the patch that prevents dictionaries from getting overwritten by a sync, as mentioned in this post?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=131 |
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02-10-2015, 04:03 AM | #20 |
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Arabic keyboard patch
This patch replaces the keyboard's extended Latin characters with Arabic ones:
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After a device restart the Arabic glyphs won't display properly until a book has been opened and the font menu (Aa) accessed. The shift key doesn't do anything to the Arabic keys, is that a fault or doesn't Arabic have upper and lower cases? Not all of the extended keypad is used, maybe possible to replace some more of the keys on the upper row with Arabic keys? Last edited by GeoffR; 02-11-2015 at 11:14 PM. Reason: Updated comments in patch |
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This is GREAT GeoffR, Thanks a lot, this works very well, with two issues:
The on-the-fly search results while searching, and the search string in the results page are unreadable, may be they need the same change you did before with changing italic to normal. Quote:
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02-10-2015, 09:57 PM | #22 | |
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Unfortunately I can't find how to remove italics from the items in the pick list that pops up while entering the search string. |
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02-10-2015, 11:17 PM | #23 |
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I can confirm that the custom dictionary patch is working excellently!
Thanks for incorporating it! |
02-11-2015, 11:18 PM | #24 |
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Hebrew keyboard patch
This patch replaces most of the extended Latin keys on with Hebrew ones:
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The Hebrew keys won't show immediately after the device restarts, it is necessary to open a book and access the font (Aa) menu to make the Hebrew glyphs available to the rest of the UI. |
02-14-2015, 03:13 PM | #25 |
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Thanks, as always, for the timely patches, GeoffR.
I'm struggling with adjusting the top margin patch. First, will it work with Kepubs converted through Calibre's Extended Touch Driver, or am I wasting my time playing with the patch settings? Second, if I want a smaller header, I'm not sure what to do with this: # Normal reading mode: 5px (Touch/Mini), 6px (Glo/Aura), 8px (AuraHD/H2O) # Full-screen reading mode: 6px (Touch/Mini), 7px (Glo/Aura), 10px (AuraHD/H2O) replace_int = 51EB9E, 1, 6 Do I change the 1 or the 6 in the last line? When I tried that, the compilation failed on that precise line. Or something else? EDIT: OK, it looks like this was answered near the end of the 3.12.0 patch thread -- you can't change the top margins in kepubs. Sigh. Last edited by rogerinnyc; 02-14-2015 at 05:16 PM. Reason: Answer Found |
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Great set of patches - Thank You !
I already installed few of them. |
02-19-2015, 02:39 AM | #27 |
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`KePub zero body margin/padding` patch
This patch is a work-around for the problem where the text of some KePubs gets shifted to the right and cut off at the right margin in full-screen reading mode. It adds the following clause to the device's built-in KePub stylesheet:
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body{margin:0!important;padding:0!important} Spoiler:
You may not need this patch if you only read sideloaded kepubs, as you can add the above line to the book's CSS instead, by using the kobo_extra.css feature of the KoboTouch driver in Calibre for example. BEWARE that this patch prevents the margin adjustment slider working for KePubs in normal reading mode! So it is probably only useful to those who read Kobo-synced KePubs and always read them in full-screen mode. (It doesn't have any effect on ePubs in either reading mode.) Edit: I have updated this patch, the new one no longer prevents kepub margin changes in normal reading mode. If you use this patch, make sure to add it to libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch so that it comes after the `Fix kepub side bearing font cut-off bug` patch. Attached are screenshots from my Glo showing a Kobo synced KePub affected by this problem (this one) in full-screen mode with and without this patch. Last edited by GeoffR; 02-23-2015 at 06:26 AM. Reason: Improved patch, no longer prevents kepub margin changes in normal reading mode. |
02-19-2015, 10:04 AM | #28 |
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How can I make a Turkish keyboard? Kobo is the most popular reader here, it would help people.
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is there a way to have both keyboards ? and have a swift key ? |
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02-19-2015, 04:45 PM | #30 |
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I am getting this error when I try to run the .sh in ubuntu. Could you suggest a reason?
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Cleaning up /tmp/patch32lsb_om33A6Kv flip@flip-MacBookAir:~/Downloads/patch_kobo_3121$ I have confirmed the zip of the update and it is valid. Not sure what else could be the problem. |
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