Epub Highlight text empty space.

[DominikKu]

Bug Report

What happened?

When select more than few lines and mark it as highlight, note or underline, in the result selected area change to annotation correctly but have spaces beetwen text.

How to reproduce?

1.Open epub
2.Select more than few lines.
3.Mark as highlight, note or underline.

Environment

Android : 11
Device : One Plus 6
Readium version: develop branch - 20.01.2023, commit af2f764

[mickael-menu]

There's a heuristic that merges highlight boxes together when they are close by. It might need to be adjusted although it depends from books to books.

kotlin-toolkit/readium/navigator/src/main/assets/_scripts/src/decorator.js

Lines 233 to 237 in 830812b

	let doNotMergeHorizontallyAlignedRects = true;
	let clientRects = getClientRectsNoOverlap(
	item.range,
	doNotMergeHorizontallyAlignedRects
	);

Could you share this book you used as an example?

Note that this is not high priority, so it probably won't be fixed (by the core maintainers) soon.

[DominikKu]

This is the one of books when i could reproduce this situtaion but like you said it probably depends from books to books because it is reproducable only on few books.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qHhUGbRRY4IGsai64z8kVnbdAruWVKks/view?usp=sharing

[matteoappload]

Does anybody have any news about the status of this bug?

[mickael-menu]

I'm referencing the shared EPUB here in case it gets dropped from Google Drive: blondynka_u_szamana-gj_rba.epub.zip

There is no update on this bug, and it's unlikely that we will have time to look at it anytime soon. I shared where this is happening above, if someone wants to contribute a solution.