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A cranky ebook reader for the Playdate console

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playbook's Issues

Upload TXT into Playbook itself

This is probably very of scope, but I've been having trouble side loading txt files into the Playdate over USB, in that the Playbook app doesn't recognize them. Would it be possible to have something similar to Share to Kindle or the official Playdate side loading portal where TXT files could be uploaded, then built into a PDX file that a user could then sideload? If you wanted to be super ambitious, you could have it do some server side conversation for other files or pull RSS feeds or something wild, but I wanted to know if that was anywhere near your wheelhouse.

text format supports variants, but render only kinda does

I was wondering why weird font changes were happening, didn't find anything in code and researched a bit.
turns out Playbook supports bold and italic via the standard library

playdate.graphics.drawText("normal *bold* _italic_", x, y)

It seems like a flavor of Textile instead of the more popular markdown.

• *bold* renders as bold text
• _italic_ renders as italic text

for that to work, the bold and italic variants have to be set alongside the regular font. (see Inside Playdate)

(On the other hand if this behavior is unwanted, playdate.graphics.font:drawText() instead of playdate.graphics.drawText(). I think it makes this app more usable and loosens up the text.)

BTW: above markup information should be handy for creating a guide for formatting books.