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Trustin Lee reported a problem in O'Reilly Media on September 25, 2009 20:11:

Tips and Warnings clips out in 'C in a Nutshell' ePub version

In Sony Reader PRS-700BC, the tip and warning boxes are clipped out of the screen. I am not sure if this is the case for all ePub books, but I'm sure for a certain ones like 'C in a Nutshell'.

In 'C in a Nutshell', unlike other ePub books, there is a border around the tips and warnings, and that might be why the paragraphs in the boxes are clipped out.

Trustin Lee reported a problem in O'Reilly Media on September 25, 2009 14:29:

ePub title all uppercase for 'The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse'

The title field of the ePub metadata of 'The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse' is all uppercased. It doesn't look very pretty because no other ePubs have all-uppercased titles. Could it be capitalized only where necessary?

A comment on the problem "Horrible ePub monospace font in Sony Reader (PRS-700BC)" in O'Reilly Media:

Just a side note - It seems like Sony Reader works just fine without modifying the manifest file. So, any ETA to the next update? I'm really looking forward to it! – Trustin Lee, on September 22, 2009 00:16

Trustin Lee marked one of Adam Witwer's replies in O'Reilly Media as useful. Adam Witwer replied to the problem "Missing Tip / Caution icons in ePub files".

A comment on the problem "Missing Tip / Caution icons in ePub files" in O'Reilly Media:

I see. I'm fine with it as it's not a critical issue. – Trustin Lee, on September 21, 2009 04:24

A comment on the problem "Figures of 'Beautiful Data' clipped in Sony Reader (PRS-700BC)" in O'Reilly Media:

That is a great news and thanks for a quick response. When would the new CSS be published? I'm eager to test it. – Trustin Lee, on September 21, 2009 04:20

Trustin Lee replied on September 19, 2009 17:12 to the problem "Horrible ePub monospace font in Sony Reader (PRS-700BC)" in O'Reilly Media:

I modified the "core.css" by myself to embed the monospace font and got a great result. I used 'Liberation Mono', but it should work for 'DejaVu Sans Mono', too.

I had to define both regular and italic fonts because Sony Reader's default italicizer generates ugly glyphs:

@font-face {

  font-family: "Liberation Mono";

  font-style: normal;

  font-weight: normal;

  src:url(LiberationMono.otf);

}


@font-face {

  font-family: "Liberation Mono";

  font-style: italic;

  font-weight: normal;

  src:url(LiberationMono-Italic.otf);

}

AND replace 'monospace' with 'Liberation Mono':

pre {

  white-space: pre-wrap;

  font-family: "Liberation Mono", monospace;

  font-size: smaller;

  margin-left: 5px;

}

code { 

  white-space: pre-wrap;

  font-family: "Liberation Mono", monospace;

  font-size: smaller;

}

I wish this proposed change is made into the next update. What do you think?

Trustin Lee reported a problem in O'Reilly Media on September 18, 2009 17:40:

Missing Tip / Caution icons in ePub files

I purchased 'Programming Scala' today.

In the section 'Conventions Used in This Book', the icons for 'Tip' and 'Caution' are missing.

I am reading it with the ePub version in my Sony Reader PRS-700BC. I tried it with FBReader in my PC, and the icons are still missing, which could mean it's not a reader problem but an ePub file problem where needs a fix from O'reilly.

Trustin Lee reported a problem in O'Reilly Media on September 18, 2009 17:30:

Figures of 'Beautiful Data' clipped in Sony Reader (PRS-700BC)

I'm reading ePub version of 'Beautiful Data' in my Sony Reader PRS-700BC. The main paragraphs look very nice, but some figures are clipped out of the screen.

I know Sony Reader has limited screen resolution and seeing such complex images in the reader might not make much sense, but at least they shouldn't be clipped out IMHO.

Is there any way to fix / work around this problem? For example, the figure 1-1 shows three images but the first and the third are clipped out.

By the way, I wonder if this is a bug in Sony Reader and other eBook readers such as Stanza for iPhone render the wide figures correctly.

Trustin Lee reported a problem in O'Reilly Media on September 18, 2009 17:18:

Horrible ePub monospace font in Sony Reader (PRS-700BC)

Thank you very much for providing ePub format files first of all.

I purchased three eBooks from O'reilly.com and they look almost OK in my Sony Reader. One problem is that it does not embed monospace fonts, which means the horrible default font is used to display a code block. I love the embedded DejaVu Serif font, so I would expect the DejaVu Mono to be embedded too for better readability.

I can modify the epub file by myself, but I would rather want to see the saner defaults.

Trustin Lee reported a problem in Xmarks on September 17, 2009 03:23:

Bottom toolbar does not work initially in Linux

I am using the latest Chromium build for Linux posted here:

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/co...

I have installed the latest Xmarks for Chrome Alpha. Once installation is complete. I see some broken bottom toolbar. I say 'broken' because:

* the Xmarks button is not visible.
* If I left-click anywhere in the toolbar, nothing happens.
* If I right-click anywhere in the toolbar, Chrome Inspector window shows up.

To fix the problem, I had to reload the extension by browsing into 'chrome://extensions/' and clicking the 'Reload' button explicitly. Once reloaded, everything seems to work fine. I was able to configure Xmarks without a problem.

Trustin Lee started following the idea "Show only unread messages" in Postbox.

Trustin Lee replied on June 26, 2009 05:01 to the idea "Correct Identity (add-on)" in Postbox:

I often even forget to set the correct identity when I write a fresh message. The identity could be automatically chosen (or corrected) even when a user composes a new message and modifies the recipient list.

Trustin Lee replied on June 26, 2009 04:59 to the idea "Correct Identity (add-on)" in Postbox:

There's already a Thunderbird add-on, but it refuses to install. It would be great if the compatibility issue is fixed and the add-on is listed here: http://postbox-inc.com/extensions/

Trustin Lee started following the idea "Correct Identity (add-on)" in Postbox.

Trustin Lee marked one of Seth's replies in Postbox as useful. Seth replied to the problem "XML Parsing Error in Windows CJK versions".

A comment on the problem "XML Parsing Error in Windows CJK versions" in Postbox:

Fix confirmed. Works flawlessly! – Trustin Lee, on June 26, 2009 04:54

Trustin Lee shared an idea in Postbox on May 26, 2009 00:09:

Regular expression matcher in message filter

The regular expression matcher in message filters might not be very useful for an ordinary user, but I find it very useful to write more complicated filters and I believe it will be for many power users.

It would be really nice if two matchers are added:

* 'matches regular expression'
* 'does not match regular expression'

I would prefer the PERL or Java regular expression because it's most flexible and powerful although I can live with the well documented similar regex engine.

Trustin Lee asked a question in Postbox on May 26, 2009 00:02:

Message filter that matches message body?

On my IMAP account, I want to write a message filter that matches a message from its content / body. I configured Postbox to download all message body along with the headers, so I thought it should be possible. However, it seems like there's no such option at the moment. Or am I missing out something?

Trustin Lee reported a problem in Postbox on May 25, 2009 23:55:

Performance issue with an Inbox with 170,000 messages

I have an inbox with 170k messages. Whenever I switch my focus from Trash to Inbox and vice versa, it takes quite a lot of time (about 10 seconds?) and Postbox becomes unresponsive. By contrast, Opera M2 has no problem dealing with such a large inbox - there's almost no pause (about 0.x seconds). Could it be better?

My account uses IMAP w/ StartTLS. I'm not sure if a certain message is causing this sort of slow down. I use the conversations view and the threaded view for Postbox and Opera respectively.

Because Postbox has the conversations view and much better identity management, I'd like to keep using Postbox once this performance issue is resolved. To accelerate resolution, I'd like to provide necessary information that Postbox team might be interested.

Please keep up the great work!