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So, I've been using nov.el for #emacs to read epubs. It does a pretty decent job of it, but I have one point of irritation: I can't for the life of me find a way to tell how far through the book I am. Is there some way to see this?
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peron
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I use it! It shows a % figure on the bottom line, but it does it only if I maximize past the 80 columns (in other words, it doesn't appear on my VT terminal!).
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@peron Yeah, but that's the percentage through the current buffer (chapter).
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मोक्ष / untrusem ⁂
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I think this might help
codeberg.org/divyaranjan/emacs…

ps - I know this is not related to your question about nov.el specifically but I saw its readme, it shows page number in modeline


emacs-reader

An all-in-one document reader for all formats in Emacs, backed by MuPDF.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@मोक्ष / untrusem ⁂ This package appears to render documents using SVG output. Considering that I spend 95% of my time in the terminal, this would likely be a deal-breaker for me unfortunately. 🙁
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this is for Doom but might give you some ideas? I stole some code from here and it's a bit beyond me but involves setting a custom modeline when in nov mode > tecosaur.github.io/emacs-confi…
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Nov.el is on my list of things to do when I get back to working on my config. But do you not display your file location in your modeline?

I'd have to fire it up and check, but I'd expect my usual modeline indicators to be there.

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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Zenie The mode line shows the position in the current buffer. The buffer displays the current chapter. Thus, it shows your position in the current chapter, not the book overall.
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Zenie
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It might be a week or two, but I'll take a look. Or maybe just ask for the feature on GitHub.

There might be some difficulties, each chapter would need an index to know it's overall position.

Hacking elisp is fun, and I'm wanting to switch to nov.el so adding a percent complete indicator falls in my path of desires.

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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Zenie The feature might actually exist for all I know, so I hesitate to put in a feature request. I was just hoping that it was an already solved problem.
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Zenie
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I glanced at the code. But I'm not at my usual computer so I can't look at help, the mode or the code more thoroughly. I only just installed it recently so don't know it well.

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