## Summary
Closes#743.
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Add back handling for HTML entities in expat. This was originally part
of the code that got removed
[here](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/274)
- Handle ` ` characters to resolve issue #743
**What changes are included?**
- Brought back HTML entity table from previous commit and refactored it
to use a static const char * table with linear lookup to reduce heap
allocations.
- Used `XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand` in expat to parse out the entities
correctly, without needing them defined in DOCTYPE
- Added handling for ` ` so that the text stays together and
doesn't break onto a new line with text separated by an ` `
## Additional Context
- This supersedes [this
PR](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/751)
that simply handled `nbsp;` as whitespace. Instead, we want that
character to serve its true purpose and affect the line-breaking
algorithm.
- Updated my test EPUB [here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub)
with ` ` characters examples at the end of the book
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## Summary
* Definition and use of a central LOG function, that can later be
extended or completely be removed (for public use where debugging
information may not be required) to save flash by suppressing the
-DENABLE_SERIAL_LOG like in the slim branch
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
* By using the central logger the usual:
```
#include <HardwareSerial.h>
...
Serial.printf("[%lu] [WCS] Obfuscating/deobfuscating %zu bytes\n", millis(), data.size());
```
would then become
```
#include <Logging.h>
...
LOG_DBG("WCS", "Obfuscating/deobfuscating %zu bytes", data.size());
```
You do have ``LOG_DBG`` for debug messages, ``LOG_ERR`` for error
messages and ``LOG_INF`` for informational messages. Depending on the
verbosity level defined (see below) soe of these message types will be
suppressed/not-compiled.
* The normal compilation (default) will create a firmware.elf file of
42.194.356 bytes, the same code via slim will create 42.024.048 bytes -
170.308 bytes less
* Firmware.bin : 6.469.984 bytes for default, 6.418.672 bytes for slim -
51.312 bytes less
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Noticed that the Indexing... popup went missing despite 3-5 seconds
delay. Reducing to 10KB, so we get a popup for delays > ~2s.
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** Add Italian language hyphenation
support to improve text rendering for Italian books.
* **What changes are included?**
* Added Italian hyphenation trie (hyph-it.trie.h) generated from Typst's
hypher patterns
* Registered italianHyphenator in LanguageRegistry.cpp for language tag
it
* Added Italian to the hyphenation evaluation test suite
* Added Italian test data file with 5000 test cases
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
specific areas to focus on).
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## Summary
- Closes#730
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- Adds percentage-based value support to CSS properties that accept
percentages (padding, margin, text-indent)
**What changes are included?**
- Adds `Percent` as another CSS unit
- Passes the viewport width to `fromCssStyle` so that we can resolve
percentage-based values
- Adds a fallback of using an emspace for text-indent if we have an
unresolvable value for whatever reason
## Additional Context
- This was missed in my CSS support feature, and the fallback when we
encounter a percentage value is to use px instead. This means 5% (which
would be ~30px on the screen) turns into 5px. When percentages are used
in `text-indent`, this fallback behavior makes the indent look like a
single space character. Whoops! 😬
My test EPUB has been updated
[here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub) with percentage based
CSS values at the end of the book.
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I had an epub that just showed a blank cover and wouldnt work for the
sleep screen either, turns out it was an epub3 and I guess we didn't
support that. Super simple fix here
## Summary
Continue my changes to introduce the HAL infrastructure from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/522
This PR touches quite a lot of files, but most of them are just name
changing. It should not have any impacts to the end behavior.
## Additional Context
My plan is to firstly add this small shim layer, which sounds useless at
first, but then I'll implement an emulated driver which can be helpful
for testing and for development.
Currently, on my fork, I'm using a FS driver that allow "mounting" a
local directory from my computer to the device, much like the `-v` mount
option on docker. This allows me to quickly reset `.crosspoint`
directory if anything goes wrong. I plan to upstream this feature when
this PR get merged.
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## Summary
Ref https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737
This PR further reduce ~25ms from rendering time, testing inside the
Setting screen:
```
master:
[68440] [GFX] Time = 73 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
PR:
[97806] [GFX] Time = 47 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
```
And in extreme case (fill the entire screen with black or gray color):
```
master:
[1125] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
PR:
[1334] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 225 ms
[1455] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 121 ms
```
Note that
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737 is NOT
applied on top of this PR. But with 2 of them combined, it should reduce
from 47ms --> 42ms
## Details
This PR based on the fact that function calls are costly if the function
is small enough. For example, this simple call:
```
int rotatedX = 0;
int rotatedY = 0;
rotateCoordinates(x, y, &rotatedX, &rotatedY);
```
Generated assembly code:
<img width="771" height="215" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/37991659-3304-41c3-a3b2-fb967da53f82"
/>
This adds ~10 instructions just to prepare the registers prior to the
function call, plus some more instructions for the function's
epilogue/prologue. Inlining it removing all of these:
<img width="1471" height="832" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b67a22ee-93ba-4017-88ed-c973e28ec914"
/>
Of course, this optimization is not magic. It's only beneficial under 3
conditions:
- The function is small, not in size, but in terms of effective
instructions. For example, the `rotateCoordinates` is simply a jump
table, where each branch is just 3-4 inst
- The function has multiple input arguments, which requires some move to
put it onto the correct place
- The function is called very frequently (i.e. critical path)
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## Summary
This PR optimizes the `fillRectDither` function, making it as fast as a
normal `fillRect`
Testing code:
```cpp
{
auto start_t = millis();
renderer.fillRectDither(0, 0, renderer.getScreenWidth(), renderer.getScreenHeight(), Color::LightGray);
auto elapsed = millis() - start_t;
Serial.printf("[%lu] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in %lu ms\n", millis(), elapsed);
}
{
auto start_t = millis();
renderer.fillRect(0, 0, renderer.getScreenWidth(), renderer.getScreenHeight(), true);
auto elapsed = millis() - start_t;
Serial.printf("[%lu] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in %lu ms\n", millis(), elapsed);
}
```
Before:
```
[1125] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
```
After:
```
[1065] [ ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 238 ms
[1287] [ ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms
```
## Visual validation
Before:
<img width="415" height="216" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 04 19"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5802dbba-187b-4d2b-a359-1318d3932d38"
/>
After:
<img width="420" height="191" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 36 30"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c3c8e14-3f3a-4205-be78-6ed771dcddf4"
/>
## Details
The original version is quite slow because it does quite a lot of
computations. A single pixel needs around 20 instructions just to know
if it's black or white:
<img width="1170" height="693" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 00 15 54"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7c5a55e7-0598-4340-8b7b-17307d7921cb"
/>
With the new, templated and more light-weight approach, each pixel takes
only 3-4 instructions, the modulo operator is translated into bitwise
ops:
<img width="1175" height="682" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-07 at 01 47 51"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ec2cf74-6cc0-4b5b-87d5-831563ef164f"
/>
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Closes#182. Closes#710. Closes#711.
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- A longer-term, more robust fix for the issue with spurious spaces
appearing after style changes. Replaces solution from #694.
**What changes are included?**
- Add continuation flags to determine if to add a space after a word or
if the word connects to the previous word. Replaces simple solution that
only considered ending punctuation.
- Fixed an issue with greedy line-breaking algorithm where punctuation
could appear on the next line, separated from the word, if there was a
style change between the word and punctuation
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## Summary
Reduce/fix the lag on the home screen before recent book covers are
rendered
## Additional Context
We were previously rendering the screen in two steps, delaying the
recent book covers render to avoid a lag before the screen loads.
In this PR, we are now doing that only if at least one book doesn't have
the cover thumbnail generated yet. If all thumbs are already generated,
we load and display them right away, with no lag.
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Closes#712
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- To add new settings for toggling on/off embedded CSS styles in the
reader. This gives more control and customization to the user over how
the ereader experience looks.
**What changes are included?**
- Added new "Embedded Style" option to the Reader settings
- Added new "Book's Style" option for "Paragraph Alignment"
- User's selected "Paragraph Alignment" will take precedence and
override the embedded CSS `text-align` property, _unless_ the user has
"Book's Style" set as their "Paragraph Alignment"
## Additional Context

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e404b13-c7e0-41c7-9406-4715f389166a
Addresses feedback from the community about the new CSS feature:
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/700
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Fixes issue #182
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
When inline styles change mid-paragraph, words like periods, commas, and
quotes could end up as separate tokens. The justified text algorithm was
treating these as regular words, adding space before them.
**What changes are included?**
Now tracks which words are "attaching punctuation" (., , ! ? ; : " ' and
smart quotes) and excludes them from gap counting. These punctuation
marks attach directly to the preceding word without spacing.
## Additional Context
This is split out from code in #411 to address this comment
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/411#discussion_r2751166631
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
The goal of this PR is to deliver a fix for or at least mitigate the
impact of the issue described in #561
* **What changes are included?**
This PR includes a new option "Sunlight Fading Fix" under "Settings ->
Display".
When set to ON, we will disable the displays analog supply voltage after
every update and turn it back on before the next update.
## Additional Context
* Until now, I was only able to do limited testing because of limited
sunlight at my location, but the fix seems to be working. I'll also
attach a pre-built binary based on 0.16.0 (current master) with the fix
applied to the linked ticket, as building this fix is a bit annoying
because the submodule open-x4-sdk also needs an update.
* [PR in
open-x4-sdk](https://github.com/open-x4-epaper/community-sdk/pull/15)
needs to be merged first, we also need to add another commit to this
here PR, updating this dependency.
* I decided to hide this behind a default-OFF option. While I'm not
really concerned that this fix might potentially damage the display,
someone more knowledgeable on E-Ink technology could maybe have a look
at this.
* There's a binary attached in the linked issue, if someone has the
required sunlight to test this in-depth.
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