This week saw massive improvements to TXT input. I started the week with a slew of changes and as soon as I had implemented the first of them Lee Dolsen contacted me. We’ve worked together before improving PDF input. Since then he’s done a lot of work with preprocessing of PDF and other not so clean input. TXT input now auto detects the character encoding of the file. It isn’t 100% accurate but should work for the majority of cases....
I have been taking a short break from blogging again. The pressure at work has only increased and is eating into a lot of my time. I haven’t been motivated to work on personal projects because well they are work. However, this has recently changed a bit. I’ve started a Qt based library for reading ebooks in a generic manner. It is called lebookread! It is it’s early stages. So far I have it supporting epub, palmdoc pdb, ztxt pdb, tcr, and rb files....
Device interfaces can now be configured in the GUI. Also, there is a simple framework for creating plugin configuration widgets. I’ve added a metadata reader for the eReader format. However, eReader supports 3 ways to set the metadata in the file. In the pdb header (only supports setting a short title). In the metadata section of the file (supports the most information: title, author, publisher, copyright, isbn). Embedded in the text as a comment....