dotemacs/modules/nov-reading.el, branch mainMy Emacs configuration
https://git.cjennings.net/dotemacs/atom?h=main2026-06-30T05:00:33+00:00feat(nov-reading): persist font size, add per-palette structural faces2026-06-30T05:00:33+00:00Craig Jenningsc@cjennings.net2026-06-30T05:00:33+00:00urn:sha1:6f43a260891deea175eeee83ec602f97a16c974e
Font size now carries across books and sessions. The +/-/= keys write the text-scale offset to data/nov-reading-text-scale and the offset is restored when a book opens, so a size I set sticks instead of resetting to the base height on every reopen. The = key returns to the base height and persists that reset.
Each palette grows from a single bg/fg face into a bundle: :face plus optional :heading and :link. When a palette is active, its heading and link faces remap shr's h1-h6 and link faces buffer-local, so the EPUB hierarchy reads in the palette's accent. The remap stays buffer-local to the nov buffer, so HTML mail and eww keep the theme's normal shr colors.
feat(nov): reading-view theme layer with palettes and font sizing2026-06-30T02:07:45+00:00Craig Jenningsc@cjennings.net2026-06-30T02:07:45+00:00urn:sha1:d94b0dc1603acae7abef0a00bc096ef45d79636b
EPUB reading prefs were scattered: a hardcoded Merriweather/180 font-remap in calibredb-epub-config's nov hook, no color control (the old sepia foreground had been stripped), and a frame-global EBook fontaine preset as the only way to size up. That preset resized the font in every buffer in the frame, not just the book.
I pulled the reading view into its own layer, modules/nov-reading.el, on top of stock nov (no fork). It owns three things, all buffer-local: a reading palette (sepia/dark/light, each a face the dupre theme owns, sepia the default), the serif typography (family plus a defcustom base height replacing the hardcoded 180), and page font sizing (+/- bump the size live, = resets to the base). Width moves to { }. calibredb-epub-config keeps the library and width/centering layout. Its nov hook now calls into the layer.
The three palette faces register as a nov-reading app in theme-studio (face_data.py), so they're tunable there like any other app. I dropped the EBook fontaine preset, since reading size is buffer-local now.