Autoscroll based on text density?

Spacejack_2084 · 10-05-2023, 11:23 PM

I've been using ICE book reader for a while but it's not available for legit download anymore since the company vanished. So I've been getting to know the Calibre viewer, and I'm able to dial it in pretty much to what I want, but there's one feature in ICE that I'd like to get back: it can autoscroll based on characters-per-second instead of lines-per-minute.

This makes for a very comfortable reading experience in autoscroll mode, since sequences of short-burst dialogue, or lines that have been truncated by justification, scroll past more quickly than full lines of text. I've found that this helps me maintain a comfortable pace, vs. going by line.

Is this the place to post a feature request?

kovidgoyal · 10-05-2023, 11:42 PM

This would be fairly hard to implement robustly as one would need to inspect content to calculate the number of characters in the the line_height() region of the current screen. Browsers dont provide a convenient API for this. As such too much work for me, but patches are welcome.

10-05-2023, 11:23 PM	#1
Spacejack_2084 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Device: none	Autoscroll based on text density? I've been using ICE book reader for a while but it's not available for legit download anymore since the company vanished. So I've been getting to know the Calibre viewer, and I'm able to dial it in pretty much to what I want, but there's one feature in ICE that I'd like to get back: it can autoscroll based on characters-per-second instead of lines-per-minute. This makes for a very comfortable reading experience in autoscroll mode, since sequences of short-burst dialogue, or lines that have been truncated by justification, scroll past more quickly than full lines of text. I've found that this helps me maintain a comfortable pace, vs. going by line. Is this the place to post a feature request?

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10-05-2023, 11:42 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,573 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	This would be fairly hard to implement robustly as one would need to inspect content to calculate the number of characters in the the line_height() region of the current screen. Browsers dont provide a convenient API for this. As such too much work for me, but patches are welcome.