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by jack101311 429 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 429 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.

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jack101311 428 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.
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dredmorbius 428 days 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.

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