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Nova 2.0.0

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@Khalil220 Khalil220 released this 16 Jul 00:24

A ground-up rebuild, PDFs that read like books, and steadier reading on big books.

  • PDFs read far more faithfully. Text is no longer doubled or broken mid-word, letter-spaced headings and words split across a line break are rejoined, and print-production debris — layout slugs, figure asset codes, stray control characters — is stripped out.
  • Multi-column PDF pages read in true column order. Two-column chapter introductions, the glossary, and the three-column index read down each column in turn instead of zig-zagging line by line, and paragraphs flow as continuous prose rather than one source line at a time.
  • Tables and lists keep their shape. Tables hold together while diagrams and prose that only look tabular are no longer mistaken for them; the table of contents, indexes, and glossaries read as lists, one entry per line and in order; numbered and bulleted lists read as lists; and the odd-numbered-answers appendix reads in sequence.
  • Figures and worked math stay in place. Margin notes and sidebars read as their own blocks instead of being woven mid-sentence into the body, figure labels stay with their figure, stacked worked math reads top to bottom, and a full-page diagram is announced as an image instead of arriving as a silent, blank page.
  • Find counts lines, not repeats. A word that appears several times on one line now counts once, so "Match 3 of 12" means the third of twelve lines that contain your word — the ordinal no longer jumps while a single line is read. Each match parks the reading caret at the start of its line and is announced politely, without cutting off the line being spoken. Every match on every line still highlights.
  • Chapter titles repeat less at chapter starts. When a book restates a title — a bare "Chapter 1" followed by "Chapter 1: The Subtitle", or the same words with casing or dash differences — Nova recognizes the restatement and announces the fullest form once instead of two or three times.
  • Big books stay responsive. Opening deep inside a long book no longer briefly freezes on your first arrow key, the table of contents opens instantly even on very large books, and the reader renders correctly on any monitor and DPI scale.
  • Smaller fixes: reaching the end of a book lands on its real last line instead of a trailing blank, and continuous say-all reading no longer drifts off course deep into a long book.