## Summary
* What is the goal of this PR?
- Allow users to create custom sleep screen images with standard tools
(ImageMagick, GIMP, etc.) that render cleanly on the e-ink display
without dithering artifacts. Previously, avoiding dithering required
non-standard 2-bit BMPs that no standard image editor can produce. ( see
issue #931 )
* What changes are included?
- Add 4-bit BMP format support to Bitmap.cpp (standard format, widely
supported by image tools)
- Auto-detect "native palette" images: if a BMP has ≤4 palette entries
and all luminances map within ±21 of the display's native gray levels
(0, 85, 170, 255), skip dithering entirely and direct-map pixels
- Clarify pixel processing strategy with three distinct paths:
error-diffusion dithering, simple quantization, or direct mapping
- Add scripts/generate_test_bmps.py for generating test images across
all supported BMP formats
## Additional Context
* The e-ink display has 4 native gray levels. When a BMP already uses
exactly those levels, dithering adds noise to what should be clean
output. The native palette detection uses a ±21 tolerance (~10%) to
handle slight rounding from color space conversions in image tools.
Users can now create a 4-color grayscale BMP with (imagemagic example):
```
convert input.png -colorspace Gray -colors 4 -depth
```
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## Summary
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Several methods in GfxRenderer were doing a `count()` followed by `at()`
on the fonts map, effectively doing the same map lookup unnecessarily.
This can be avoided by doing a single `find()` and reusing the iterator.
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## Summary
* GfxRender did handle horizontal and vertical lines but had a TODO for
arbitrary lines.
* Added integer based Bresenham line drawing
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## Summary
* Original implementation had inconsistent positioning logic:
- When XPath parsing succeeded: incorrectly set pageNumber = 0 (always
beginning of chapter)
- When XPath parsing failed: used percentage for positioning (worked
correctly)
- Result: Positions restored to wrong locations depending on XPath
parsing success
- Mentioned in Issue #581
* Solution
- Unified ProgressMapper::toCrossPoint() to use percentage-based
positioning exclusively for both spine identification and intra-chapter
page calculation, eliminating unreliable XPath parsing entirely.
## Additional Context
* ProgressMapper.cpp: Simplified toCrossPoint() to always use percentage
for positioning, removed parseDocFragmentIndex() function
* ProgressMapper.h: Updated comments and removed unused function
declaration
* Tests confirmed appropriate positioning
* __Notabene: the syncing to another device will (most probably) end up
at the current chapter of crosspoints reading position. There is not
much we can do about it, as KOReader needs to have the correct XPath
information - we can only provide an apporximate position (plus
percentage) - the percentage information is not used in KOReaders
current implementation__
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I want to preface this PR by stating that the proposed changes are
subjective to people's opinions. The following is just my suggestion,
but I'm of course open to changes.
The popups in the currently implemented version of the Lyra theme feel a
bit out of place. This PR suggests an updated version which looks a bit
more polished and in line with the rest of the theme.
I've also taken the liberty to remove the ellipsis behind the text of
the popups, as they made the popup feel a bit off balance (example
below).
With the applied changes, popups will look like this.

The vertical position is (more or less) aligned to be in line with the
sleep button. I'm aware the popup is used for other purposes aside from
the sleep message, but this still felt like a good place. It's also a
place where your eyes naturally 'rest'.
The popup has a small 2px white outline, neatly separating it from
whatever is behind it.
Initially I started out worked off the Figma design for the Lyra theme,
which [moves the
popups](https://www.figma.com/design/UhxoV4DgUnfrDQgMPPTXog/Lyra-Theme?node-id=2011-19296&t=Ppj6B2MrFRfUo9YX-1)
to the bottom of the screen. To me, this results in popups that are much
too easy to miss:

After this, I tried moving the popup back up (to the position of the
sleep button), but to me it still kinda disappeared into the text of the
book:

Inverting the colors of the popup made things stand out the perfect
amount in my opinion. The white outline separates the popup from what is
behind it.

This looked much better to me. The only thing that felt a bit off to me,
was the balance due to the ellipsis at the end of the popup text. Also,
"Entering Sleep..." felt a bit.. engineer-y. I felt something a bit more
'conversational' makes at all feel a bit more human-centric. But I'm no
copywriter, and English is not even my native language. So feel free to
chip in!
After tweaking that, I ended up with the final result:
_(Same picture as the first one shown in this PR)_

* Figma design:
https://www.figma.com/design/UhxoV4DgUnfrDQgMPPTXog/Lyra-Theme?node-id=2011-19296&t=Ppj6B2MrFRfUo9YX-1
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* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add proper hyphenation support for the Ukrainian language.
* **What changes are included?**
- Added Ukrainian hyphenation rules/dictionary
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Port PR #979's silent pre-indexing and add an Indexing Display setting
(Popup / Status Bar Text / Status Bar Icon) so users can choose how
indexing feedback is shown.
Silent pre-indexing runs on text-only penultimate pages when a status
bar option is selected, with a standard requestUpdate to clear the
indicator. Image pages skip silent indexing to avoid e-ink grayscale
pipeline conflicts; the normal popup handles those transitions. Direct
chapter jumps always show the original small popup regardless of setting.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Port 6 upstream PRs (PR #939 was already ported):
- #852: Complete HalPowerManager with RAII Lock class, WiFi check in
setPowerSaving, skipLoopDelay overrides for ClearCache/OtaUpdate,
and power lock in Activity render task loops
- #965: Fix paragraph formatting inside list items by tracking
listItemUntilDepth to prevent unwanted line breaks
- #972: Micro-optimizations: std::move in insertFont, const ref for
getDataFromBook parameter
- #971: Remove redundant hasPrintableChars pre-rendering pass from
EpdFont, EpdFontFamily, and GfxRenderer
- #977: Skip unsupported image formats before extraction, add
PARSE_BUFFER_SIZE constant and chapter parse timing
- #975: Fix UITheme memory leak by replacing raw pointer with
std::unique_ptr for currentTheme
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Instead of shrinking the highlight strip (which clipped author text),
increase homeCoverTileHeight from 310 to 318 for proper bottom padding.
Revert double-padding subtraction in bottomH/bottomSectionHeight.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Fix clock persistence bug caused by stale legacy read in settings
deserialization. Add clock size setting (Small/Medium/Large) and
timezone selection with North American presets plus custom UTC offset.
Move all clock-related settings into a dedicated Clock tab, rename
"Home Screen Clock" to "Clock", and move minute-change detection to
main loop so the header clock updates on every screen.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
- 1-book view: horizontal layout with cover left, title/author right
- 2-3 book view: fix cover stretching by preserving aspect ratio
- 0-book view: show "Choose something to read" placeholder
- Selection highlight now fully contains title and author text
- Add optional clock display in home screen header (AM/PM or 24H)
- Add "Home Screen Clock" setting under Display
- Add "Set Time" activity for manual clock setting via Settings
- Increase homeCoverTileHeight to 310 for title/author breathing room
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Consolidate dictionary items: remove "Lookup Word History" and
"Delete Dictionary Cache" from the menu. Long-press on "Lookup Word"
opens history; delete-dict-cache is now a sentinel entry at the bottom
of the history list.
Replace "Reading Orientation" with "Toggle Portrait/Landscape" that
toggles between two configurable preferred orientations (new settings:
Preferred Portrait, Preferred Landscape). Long-press opens a manual
4-option orientation sub-menu.
Add "Toggle Font Size" menu item that cycles through font sizes and
applies on menu exit (with section re-layout).
Rename "Letterbox Fill" to "Override Letterbox Fill" and
"Sync Progress" to "Sync Reading Progress" in reader menu.
All long-press flows use ignoreNextConfirmRelease to prevent the
button release from triggering actions on the subsequent screen.
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## Summary
This PR includes vocabulary and grammar fixes for Russian translation,
originally made as review comments
[here](https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/728).
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## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Skip constructing a `std::string` just to get the underlying `c_str()`
buffer, when a string literal gives the same end result.
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**What is the goal of this PR?**
This PR introduces Internationalization (i18n) support, enabling users
to switch the UI language dynamically.
**What changes are included?**
- Core Logic: Added I18n class (`lib/I18n/I18n.h/cpp`) to manage
language state and string retrieval.
- Data Structures:
- `lib/I18n/I18nStrings.h/cpp`: Static string arrays for each supported
language.
- `lib/I18n/I18nKeys.h`: Enum definitions for type-safe string access.
- `lib/I18n/translations.csv`: single source of truth.
- Documentation: Added `docs/i18n.md` detailing the workflow for
developers and translators.
- New Settings activity:
`src/activities/settings/LanguageSelectActivity.h/cpp`
This implementation (building on concepts from #505) prioritizes
performance and memory efficiency.
The core approach is to store all localized strings for each language in
dedicated arrays and access them via enums. This provides O(1) access
with zero runtime overhead, and avoids the heap allocations, hashing,
and collision handling required by `std::map` or `std::unordered_map`.
The main trade-off is that enums and string arrays must remain perfectly
synchronized—any mismatch would result in incorrect strings being
displayed in the UI.
To eliminate this risk, I added a Python script that automatically
generates `I18nStrings.h/.cpp` and `I18nKeys.h` from a CSV file, which
will serve as the single source of truth for all translations. The full
design and workflow are documented in `docs/i18n.md`.
- [x] Python script `generate_i18n.py` to auto-generate C++ files from
CSV
- [x] Populate translations.csv with initial translations.
Currently available translations: English, Español, Français, Deutsch,
Čeština, Português (Brasil), Русский, Svenska.
Thanks, community!
**Status:** EDIT: ready to be merged.
As a proof of concept, the SPANISH strings currently mirror the English
ones, but are fully uppercased.
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I used AI for the black work of replacing strings with I18n references
across the project, and for generating the documentation. EDIT: also
some help with merging changes from master.
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## Summary
* If an EPUB has:
```
<dc:creator>J.R.R. Tolkien</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Christopher Tolkien</dc:creator>
```
the current result for epub.author would provide : "J.R.R.
TolkienChristopher Tolkien" (no separator!)
* The fix will seperate multiple authors: "J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher
Tolkien"
## Additional Context
* Simple fix in ContentOpfParser - I am not seeing any dependence on the
wrong concatenated result.
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This PR applies a micro optimization on `SerializedHyphenationPatterns`,
which allow reading `rootOffset` directly without having to parse then
cache it.
It should not affect storage space since no new bytes are added.
This also gets rid of the linear cache search whenever
`liangBreakIndexes` is called. In theory, the performance should be
improved a bit, although it may be too small to be noticeable in
practice.
master branch:
```
english: 99.1023%
french: 100%
german: 97.7289%
russian: 97.2167%
spanish: 99.0236%
```
This PR:
```
english: 99.1023%
french: 100%
german: 97.7289%
russian: 97.2167%
spanish: 99.0236%
```
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tab-autocompletions
Remove empty sentinel BMP file from generateThumbBmp() that blocked
placeholder generation for books without covers. Add removeBook() to
RecentBooksStore and clear book from recents on cache delete. Ensure
home screen always generates placeholder when thumbnail generation fails.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Cherry-pick merge from pablohc/crosspoint-reader@2d8cbcf, based on
upstream PR #556 by martinbrook with pablohc's refresh optimization.
- Add JPEG decoder (picojpeg) and PNG decoder (PNGdec) with 4-level
grayscale Bayer dithering for e-ink display
- Add pixel caching system (.pxc files) for fast image re-rendering
- Integrate image extraction from EPUB HTML parser (<img> tag support)
- Add ImageBlock/PageImage types with serialization support
- Add image-aware refresh optimization (double FAST_REFRESH technique)
- Add experimental displayWindow() partial refresh support
- Bump section cache version 12->13 to invalidate stale caches
- Resolve TAG_PageImage=3 to avoid conflict with mod's TAG_PageTableRow=2
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Prevent the device from dropping to 10MHz CPU during first-time chapter
indexing, cover prerendering, and other CPU-intensive reader operations.
Three issues addressed:
- ActivityWithSubactivity now delegates preventAutoSleep() and
skipLoopDelay() to the active subactivity, so EpubReaderActivity's
signal is visible through the ReaderActivity wrapper
- Added post-loop() re-check of preventAutoSleep() in main.cpp to
catch activity transitions that happen mid-loop
- EpubReaderActivity uses both !section and a loadingSection flag to
cover the full duration from activity entry through section file
creation; TxtReaderActivity uses !initialized similarly
Also syncs HalPowerManager.cpp log messages with upstream PR #852.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Replace the "[Table omitted]" placeholder with full table rendering:
- Two-pass layout: buffer table content during SAX parsing, then
calculate column widths and lay out cells after </table> closes
- Colspan support for cells spanning multiple columns
- Forced line breaks within cells (<br>, <p>, <div> etc.)
- Center-align full-width spanning rows (section headers/titles)
- Width hints from HTML attributes and CSS (col, td, th width)
- Two-pass fair-share column width distribution that prevents
narrow columns from being excessively squeezed
- Double-encoded entity handling
- PageTableRow with grid-line rendering and serialization support
- Asymmetric vertical cell padding to balance font leading
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## Summary
Closes#766. Thank you for the help @bramschulting!
**What is the goal of this PR?**
- First and foremost, fix issue #766.
- Through working on that, I realized the current CSS parsing/loading
code can be improved dramatically for large files and still had
additional performance improvements to be made, even with EPUBs with
small CSS.
**What changes are included?**
- Stream CSS parsing and reuse normalization buffers to cut allocations
- Add rule limits and selector validation to release rules and free up
memory when needed
- Skip CSS parsing/loading entirely when "Book's Embedded Style" is off
## Additional Context
- My test EPUB has been updated
[here](https://github.com/jdk2pq/css-test-epub) to include a very large
CSS file to test this out
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Add OMIT_BOOKERLY, OMIT_NOTOSANS, OMIT_OPENDYSLEXIC flags to
selectively exclude font families, and OMIT_HYPH_DE/EN/ES/FR/IT/RU
flags to exclude individual hyphenation language tries.
The mod build environment excludes OpenDyslexic (~1.03 MB) and all
hyphenation tries (~282 KB), reducing flash usage by ~1.3 MB.
Font Family setting switched from Enum to DynamicEnum with
index-to-value mapping to handle arbitrary font exclusion without
breaking the settings UI or persisted values.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Generate styled placeholder covers (title, author, book icon) when a
book has no embedded cover image, instead of showing a blank rectangle.
- Add PlaceholderCoverGenerator lib with 1-bit BMP rendering, scaled
fonts, word-wrap, and a book icon bitmap
- Integrate as fallback in Epub/Xtc/Txt reader activities and
SleepActivity after format-specific cover generation fails
- Add fallback in HomeActivity::loadRecentCovers() so the home screen
also shows placeholder thumbnails when cache is cleared
- Add Txt::getThumbBmpPath() for TXT thumbnail support
- Add helper scripts for icon and layout preview generation
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
## 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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Implements StarDict-based dictionary lookup from the reader menu,
adapted from upstream PR #857 with /.dictionary/ folder path,
std::vector compatibility (PR #802), HTML definition rendering,
orientation-aware button hints, side button hints with CCW text
rotation, sparse index caching to SD card, pronunciation line
filtering, and reorganized reader menu with bookmark stubs.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Resolve single conflict in SleepActivity.cpp: adopt upstream millis()
timestamp log format while preserving mod's edgeCachePath argument to
renderBitmapSleepScreen().
Upstream changes (14 commits): unified navigation handling, Italian
hyphenation, natural file sort, auto WiFi reconnect, power saving on
idle, OPDS fixes, uniform debug logging, and more.
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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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Replace std::list with std::vector for the words, wordStyles,
wordXpos, and wordContinues containers in TextBlock and ParsedText.
Vectors provide contiguous memory layout for better cache locality
and O(1) random access, eliminating per-node heap allocation and
the 16-byte prev/next pointer overhead of doubly-linked list nodes.
The indexed access also removes the need for a separate continuesVec
copy that was previously built from the list for O(1) layout access.
Add configurable letterbox fill for sleep screen cover images that don't
match the display aspect ratio. Four fill modes are available: Solid
(single dominant edge shade), Blended (per-pixel edge colors), Gradient
(edge colors interpolated toward white/black), and None.
Enable upscaling of cover images smaller than the display in Fit mode by
modifying drawBitmap/drawBitmap1Bit to support both up and downscaling
via a unified block-fill approach.
Edge sampling data is cached to .crosspoint alongside the cover BMP to
avoid redundant bitmap scanning on subsequent sleeps. Cache is validated
against screen dimensions and auto-regenerated when stale.
New settings: Letterbox Fill (None/Solid/Blended/Gradient) and Gradient
Direction (To White/To Black).
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
## 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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