Cool Reader on Android

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by sangahm

So is it either chapter markings or whole book progress? I don't seem to see any chapter markings. I'll try when I get back to my nook with both options.

The question about css support, is can you control margins with the CSS? I know you can use css, I just don't know what it can control (I'm no css person but will learn if that's what it takes).

Margins is exactly the kind of thing you want to add in CSS. You can use a special default file to control this sort of thing.

Here is a typical default CSS for epub. this file is placed in the crengine folder and cool reader will find it there. There are separate files of different formats but the defaults are the same. It is a bit of overkill for some formats. It is especially targeted for fb2 format but ePub is quite close.

body { text-align: left; text-indent: 0px }
p { text-align: justify; text-indent: 1em; margin-top:0em; margin-bottom: 0em }

empty-line { height: 1em }

hr { height: 1px; background-color: #808080; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em }

sub { vertical-align: sub; font-size: 70% }
sup { vertical-align: super; font-size: 70% }
strong, b { font-weight: bold }
emphasis, i { font-style: italic }

a { text-decoration: underline }
a[type="note"] { vertical-align: super; font-size: 70%; text-decoration: none }

image { text-align: center; text-indent: 0px }
p image { display: inline }

title p, subtitle p, h1 p, h2 p, h3 p, h4 p, h5 p, h6 p { text-align: center; text-indent: 0px }
cite p, epigraph p { text-align: left; text-indent: 0px }
v { text-align: left; text-indent: 0px }

stanza + stanza { margin-top: 1em; }
stanza { margin-left: 30%; text-align: left; font-style: italic  }
poem { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; text-indent: 0px }
text-author { font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; margin-left: 5%}
epigraph { margin-left: 25%; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-indent: 1px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 25px }
cite { font-style: italic; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; text-align: justyfy; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px }

title, h1, h2 { text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; font-weight: bold; hyphenate: none; page-break-before: always; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; }
subtitle, h3, h4, h5, h6 { text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; font-weight: bold; hyphenate: none; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; }
title { font-size: 110%; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-bottom: 0.5em }
subtitle { font-style: italic; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-bottom: 0.3em }
h1 { font-size: 150% }
h2 { font-size: 140% }
h3 { font-size: 130% }
h4 { font-size: 120% }
h5 { font-size: 110% }

table { font-size: 80% }
td, th { text-indent: 0px; padding: 3px }
th {  font-weight: bold; background-color: #DDD  }
table > caption { text-indent: 0px; padding: 4px; background-color: #EEE }

code, pre { display: block; white-space: pre; text-align: left; font-family: "Courier New", "Courier", monospace; text-align: left }

body[name="notes"] { font-size: 70%; }
body[name="notes"] section title { display: run-in; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-weight: bold; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; page-break-after: auto; }
body[name="notes"] section title p { display: inline }

description { display: block; }
title-info { display: block; }
annotation { margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; font-size: 80%; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 2em }
date { display: block; font-size: 80%; font-style: italic; text-align: center }
genre { display: none; }
author { display: none; }
book-title { display: none; }
keywords { display: none; }
lang { display: none; }
src-lang { display: none; }
translator { display: none; }
document-info { display: none; }
publish-info { display: none; }
custom-info { display: none; }
coverpage { display: none }

[thenrik]

Hi:

I have a EEE Transformer running Honeycomb 3.2. I'm trying to setup Cool Reader for a friend. I was able to edit the path to the Microsd card but I can't seem to do so on my friend's transformer.

I need to change it from /mnt/sdcard to /removable/microsd.

I've looked at other posts that suggest menu/options/open file but I don't see that in the latest version.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

[ChrisJakarta]

Have tried to search this thread, but it's getting a bit long!

Is it possible to get bulleted lists to appear with bullets in the Android epub version of Cool Reader? They appear fine in the Windows version, but the lists just appear without bullets with a dark background on my Android?

Am I missing something?

Chris

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by ChrisJakarta

Have tried to search this thread, but it's getting a bit long!

Is it possible to get bulleted lists to appear with bullets in the Android epub version of Cool Reader? They appear fine in the Windows version, but the lists just appear without bullets with a dark background on my Android?

Am I missing something?

Chris

Does the font that you are using have the bullet characters that are in your EPUB? You can add more fonts if the included fonts do not have everything that you want.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...oid_user_guide

[ChrisJakarta]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Does the font that you are using have the bullet characters that are in your EPUB? You can add more fonts if the included fonts do not have everything that you want.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...oid_user_guide

Dave,

Thanks for the swift response - good point. I have not specified the font in the CSS, and am using the 'standard' fonts that seem to come with CoolReader (Droid Sans, Droid Sans Fallback, Droid Sans Mono, and Droid Serif). How can I check if these have the bullet character?

Since I want to be able to distribute the epub file, I don't particularly want to require users to download and install additional fonts - it should work 'out of the box'. If the 'standard' fonts do not include the bullet character, is there a work around?

I'm also a little unclear about adding new fonts. Can I just use the Windows font files?

Chris

[Cayo]

I have an epub file that contains a gif at some point in the middle of the text. The space where the image is supposed to show, however, is competely blank.

Cool Reader for the PC also doesn't show the image. But if I load the epub file into Sigil, I can see it just fine.

Any ideas as to what's causing this? Is it a problem with the way the epub is structured, or is Cool Reader known to have issues of this sort?

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Cayo

I have an epub file that contains a gif at some point in the middle of the text. The space where the image is supposed to show, however, is competely blank.

Cool Reader for the PC also doesn't show the image. But if I load the epub file into Sigil, I can see it just fine.

Any ideas as to what's causing this? Is it a problem with the way the epub is structured, or is Cool Reader known to have issues of this sort?

I suspect Cool Reader doesn't conform to the specification and does not have the support for Gif. It is a reader originally developed for FB2 format and there was a time when gif format was patented but this patent has expired a long time ago but some groups still won't support it favoring png. But the ePub spec clearly calls for gif and I believe png isn't even on the list. Gif is really the best format for certain line drawings etc. You might want to contact the Cool Reader group on sourceforge and request it.

Dale

[ChrisJakarta]

Update on the situation with bulleted lists. I have just upgraded to v3.0.49-14 from the CoolReader web site. This appears to solve the problem, although the bullets are not perfect. The standard appears to be a lower-case 'o', while the square is very small. However, its certainly a great improvement!

In case it's been as a result of my comments, one minor related point: the line indent for the following lines in the list is a little less than the position the first word on the first line. Same is true for Windows version. Be great if that could be corrected...

Chris

[Cayo]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

I suspect Cool Reader doesn't conform to the specification and does not have the support for Gif. It is a reader originally developed for FB2 format and there was a time when gif format was patented but this patent has expired a long time ago but some groups still won't support it favoring png. But the ePub spec clearly calls for gif and I believe png isn't even on the list. Gif is really the best format for certain line drawings etc. You might want to contact the Cool Reader group on sourceforge and request it.

Dale

Thank you for pinpointing the source of the problem. I swapped out the gifs for png's, and the file now reads fine - at least on the PC version of Cool Reader. I haven't checked the Android version yet.

[Eskarina]

I just wanted to say a big thank you to the makers of this app. The lastest update (3.0.49-14) now reads the css so that new chapters begin on a fresh page. This has been irritating me for a while so thanks for the fix.

[Cayo]

Originally Posted by Eskarina

I just wanted to say a big thank you to the makers of this app. The lastest update (3.0.49-14) now reads the css so that new chapters begin on a fresh page. This has been irritating me for a while so thanks for the fix.

Did you need a seperate css file to do that, or is it now working by default?

[Eskarina]

Originally Posted by Cayo

Did you need a seperate css file to do that, or is it now working by default?

No, I haven't changed anything and as far as I know, this was all from the new update.

I don't know anything about code but for what it's worth, I managed to figure out that Cool reader only started a new chapter on a fresh page if the chapter headings were wrapped in h tags. I would go into sigil and format each chapter title as Heading 1 or Heading 2 or use Aldiko. Thank goodness I don't have to do that anymore.

[Cayo]

The current version breaks the page margins. I'll set them, hit OK, but Cool Reader never reformats the document, and if I go back into the settings, the margins have all reverted back to 8.

[ryublu]

Is there any chance that future versions of Cool Reader will be able to display DOC files without smashing words together, or TXT files (don't know if this applies to other formats as well, such as DOC) that get to keep their blankspaces intact?

[kenyatelecommuni]

good features