Plato: A document reader for PDF, ePUB, DjVu, etc.

[NiLuJe]

Originally Posted by baskerville

Regarding Nickel's Default and Inverted mappings: Am I right in believing that the setting only applies to the portrait modes?

Indeed it does (i.e., in Landscape, no matter the mapping, the button that ends up on the right is always bound to next page).

[baskerville]

I've released 0.6.3.

This release adds proper support for the Forma.

[NiLuJe]

@baskerville: Regarding the pageturn buttons, here's the hold/repeat setup:

Key repeat handling:
  Repeat type 20 (EV_REP)
    Repeat code 0 (REP_DELAY)
      Value    400
    Repeat code 1 (REP_PERIOD)
      Value     80

Confirmed via evemu:

E: 0.000001 0001 00c2 0001      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              1
E: 0.000001 0000 0000 0000      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +0ms
E: 0.399807 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.399807 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +399ms
E: 0.479836 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.479836 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 0.559785 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.559785 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 0.639814 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.639814 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 0.719785 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.719785 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 0.799818 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.799818 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 0.879811 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.879811 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 0.959782 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 0.959782 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 1.039820 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 1.039820 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 1.119782 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 1.119782 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 1.199819 0001 00c2 0002      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              2
E: 1.199819 0000 0000 0001      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (1) ---------- +80ms
E: 1.250045 0001 00c2 0000      # EV_KEY / KEY_F24              0
E: 1.250045 0000 0000 0000      # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +51ms

[stevenam]

The search function is great, but not really always helpful for a guy who put books in different folders for different categories like me. Can you provide a folder browsing function like in CoolReader?

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by stevenam

Can you provide a folder browsing function like in CoolReader?

The directory hierarchy within the library path is imported as categories.

If you tap on a category, in the top grey bar, Plato will:

• Filter out the documents that don't have the selected category.
• Display the category's children.

[church mouse]

Running on an original H2O with no issues. I like the interface and can live with much of its simplicity but no dictionary function is a sad loss and the apparent inability to quickly navigate footnotes is killing me. Here's hoping those are on the development plan.

An impressive piece of work.

[hfpop]

Originally Posted by baskerville

The directory hierarchy within the library path is imported as categories.

I am sorry to jump in, but I had the same issue when I tried to accommodate with Plato.

Let us suppose that the root library folder has ten sub-folders. Each one of these has ten sub-folders. So, there we have ten folders on level 1 and 100 folders of level 2. All the books are inside these 100 folders.

How am I seeing the categories? Do I see 110 categories merged alphabetically in one list? This is how I made sense of it. If this is what is happening then this is really unusable as a mechanism to see or simulate the folders structure of the library.

Thank you indeed for the excellent work on Plato.

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by church mouse

I like the interface and can live with much of its simplicity

What are you missing from the other interfaces?

Originally Posted by church mouse

but no dictionary function is a sad loss

This feature is planned (and was requested several times).

Originally Posted by church mouse

and the apparent inability to quickly navigate footnotes is killing me.

You should be able to go back from a footnote by tapping the top left corner.

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by hfpop

Let us suppose that the root library folder has ten sub-folders. Each one of these has ten sub-folders. So, there we have ten folders on level 1 and 100 folders of level 2. All the books are inside these 100 folders.

How am I seeing the categories? Do I see 110 categories merged alphabetically in one list?

No, what you see is the list of the ten categories on level 1.

If you select a category, its (direct) children will appear (a category on level n+1 is rendered at a smaller font size than a category on level n).

[forster01]

i like Plato more then Koreader, thanks for Plato.
But i have one question do you intend to make a version with an option for adding some weight to the fonts (to darken a font a bit). And is it only me but when switching to plato red light filter, on KA1, add some red light although in light settings it shows 0?

[church mouse]

@baskerville

Q - What are you missing from the other interfaces?

A - My "would like to haves" are: clock and current reading progress (% or page) on the main screen. I accept that these are purely personal preferences.

As to footnotes - apologies for the lack of detail in my previous post. The problem I am having is that, unless I increase font size to the maximum, I cannot get Plato to register my touch on the footnote link. With my normal reading font size, neither KoReader nor Kobo's own reader have any issue with recognising the touch to go to the footnote - perhaps they have a bigger zone to register a footnote link touch?

[Name28]

Hello. Thank you very much for Plato! Works fast, looks good. But I have some question, please help with that. My device is Kobo Glo HD.
1. How to minimize/remove margins of the page ? I tried that "em"s from the right side, and the numbers from the left side, but did not work for me.
2. Is it possible to make it show the status (progress and left battery charge)on the bottom and the title of the book on the top (please see the picture) always while reading?
Thank you.

Spoiler:

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by forster01

Do you intend to make a version with an option for adding some weight to the fonts?

If I was to implement this feature, I would rely on OpenType Font Variations.

Originally Posted by forster01

And is it only me but when switching to Plato red light filter, on KA1, add some red light although in light settings it shows 0?

I'm afraid you'll have to be more explicit for me be able to reproduce the problem.

[forster01]

Originally Posted by baskerville

I'm afraid you'll have to be more explicit for me be able to reproduce the problem.

Just like i said.
KA1, patched. installed with one click installer. i don't use natural light, so it is turned off, and it is nonetheless setted to 3am(and off) , but on opening plato from a home screen does automatically sets natural light on then to +1, then off, and shows it is 0 in plato light setings.
So i can notice little redish screen and can't do anything about that,
When i come back to nickel, it is turned off and shows +1, but it is off-no redish screen.

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by Name28

1. How to minimize/remove margins of the page ?
I tried that "em"s from the right side

That's the line height.

Originally Posted by Name28

, and the numbers from the left side, but did not work for me.

The ePUB's CSS might be setting some padding–margin on the body element.

Originally Posted by Name28

2. Is it possible to make it show the status (progress and left battery charge) on the bottom and the title of the book on the top always while reading?

It isn't.