11-11-2020, 10:37 AM | #16 | |
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I do realize that calibre does not always use the same tags for the same situations. It depends on how many books I merge together, which means some searches have to be edited. But I do run a few search/replace commands that are the same for every book. This is my list, copied from a saved search file. Spoiler:
Then there is also the ([a-zI])linebreak-tags([a-zA-Z]) to \1 \2 and similar with comma a.o. to remove mid-sentence line breaks. I search for chapter headers, change them to <h2> for 'parts' and <h3> for all the regular, I use <h4> for subchapters that I don't want in the TOC. Since those will be different with each book, I cannot make a general rule for them. After that it becomes stylesheet line searches to remove the remaining nonsense rules, until I am left with only my standard ones which are the same for every book I edit. Some ebooks have multiple tags for every line that cancel each other out = waste of space that only increases the size of the book needlessly. Lately, I have started merging all the novels or series from one author together and processing that in bulk. I find it goes faster than doing each one separately. I rename files per book with copyright date. After cleaning up css, I export everything, bring everything up to top-level and because of the renaming, I get the novels sorted chronologically and the series by name. I am doing this to get rid of the interminable listings in my ebook-reader when all the books are separate. This way I get one listing for novels (I used to do by 5 or 6, but even that can be quite long) Last edited by theducks; 11-11-2020 at 02:01 PM. Reason: spoilered |
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11-11-2020, 10:58 AM | #17 | |
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Made them all 1em 2. I would prefer to just have <p> for 99% of the text, and only add a class= when needed 3. Same for <Hx> - let the style sheet do all the heavy lifting for the formatting, and only tweak where absolutely needed Last edited by phossler; 11-11-2020 at 11:01 AM. Reason: Can't type |
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11-11-2020, 12:26 PM | #18 |
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Clever use of css combinators should let you get rid of 99.9% of all the class= warts. I do have a few in my standard css file but I rarely use them.
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11-12-2020, 12:12 AM | #19 | |
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I have plenty of books that have only the 'calibre' for page layout and calibre1 for the line indent. |
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11-12-2020, 12:23 AM | #20 |
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I noticed yesterday that one can also enter regex search/replace during the convert process. I thought why not do it all in advance. I entered the same listing, (preferences +> Common options +> Search/replace) That didn't seem to work. None of the commands were executed. I am probably not doing it right. But the saved searches in the editor work fine. Batching those saves me a lot of repetion and time.
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11-23-2020, 07:56 PM | #21 | |
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You can call saved searches according to their names. Say, you just type "w" in the top "filter" field, and you just see all your saved searches which have a "w" in their name. So, it's up to you to just name your saved searches in a custom way. |
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11-24-2020, 09:52 PM | #22 | |
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I have been using my own convention to give the first word a 'key' and grouping the saved searches that I typically run together next to each other, like DELETE, TAG, and Hx One thing -- I'd prefer that filter started matching just from the left, and not anywhere in the string (personal opinion) |
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