Comment by jack101311

2 days ago

Actually, I know EinkBro's author, Daniel Kao, and I intend to contact him about potentially integrating this module. Four years ago, I proposed and demonstrated the pagination concept to him, leading to discussions that eventually resulted in his release of the first public version of EinkBro. I've been a dedicated EinkBro user ever since.

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dredmorbius  2 days ago

I'm going to advocate for this as well.

I've mostly interacted with Daniel through GitHub. My most recently implemented suggestion was to provide margins for EinkBro's Reader Mode:

<https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro/issues/33>

eInkMode would be a much-desired further improvement.

  • jack101311  2 days ago

    Thank you very much! I need to correct my words, because your newspaper doesn’t contain images, so I think you can use Eink mode for grid or flex layouts without any problems.

    • dredmorbius  21 hours ago

      I've been thinking through approaches though I haven't yet attempted incorporating eInk Mode yet.

      My basic document model is:

        <header>
  <main (flex layout)>
    <nav>
      <.headlines-nav (column layout)>
    <.sections>
      <section>
        <article>
        <article> ...
      <section>
        <article>
        <article> ...
      ...
 </main>
 <footer>

      The headlines-nav is effectively a table of contents, and should be preserved as part of the main document. The header and footer can be treated as preliminary and terminal content. I think it makes sense to think of the <sections> as chapters or sections of the document, probably with page breaks. After that, a media query for positioning the articles within each section should make sense.

      I've been talking to someone who'd prefer a printed-out version of the page (motor-neural limitations), and this might be one path toward that.

      FWIW, I've considered adding images to the output, though in general I find these don't add much, and in fact frequently detract from, actual content. I've done some manual edits to add in images on a few instances. Automating that process of selection and incorporation is another challenge of course.