Not getting parts in the right order

pedz · 04-02-2010, 04:59 PM

Attach, I have put my split up html files which is what I give to ebook-convert. You can see that it orders the partNNN.html files in order.

But the output has them mixed up. It puts them out roughly in the order they are read:

toc.html
part000.html
part001.html
part019.html
part002.html
part005.html
part004.html

...

The script I'm using is:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

rm -rf debug-output
mkdir debug-output

/usr/bin/ebook-convert \
  toc.html \
  test.epub \
  -v -v -v -v \
  --flow-size 1000000 \
  --debug-pipeline debug-output \
  --output-profile nook \
  --max-levels 2 \
  --level1-toc '//h:h2[@class="epub-toc"]' \
  --level2-toc '//h:h3[@class="epub-toc"]' \
  --level3-toc '//h:h4[@class="epub-toc"]' \
  --dont-split-on-page-breaks \
  --language en \
  --authors "Ian Hickson, David Hyatt, et. al." \
  --pubdate "$( date '+%b %d, %Y' )" \
  --publisher WhatWg.org

The --flow-size option I add / remove depending up which set of bugs I want :-)

Note, I have also tried adding a file like this (below) and used it as the input file to ebook-convert:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>Web Applications 1.0</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <a href="part000.html"> </a>
    <a href="part001.html"> </a>
    <a href="part002.html"> </a>
    <a href="part003.html"> </a>
    <a href="part004.html"> </a>
    <a href="part005.html"> </a>
    <a href="part006.html"> </a>
    <a href="part007.html"> </a>
    <a href="part008.html"> </a>
    <a href="part009.html"> </a>
    <a href="part010.html"> </a>
    <a href="part011.html"> </a>
    <a href="part012.html"> </a>
    <a href="part013.html"> </a>
    <a href="part014.html"> </a>
    <a href="part015.html"> </a>
    <a href="part016.html"> </a>
    <a href="part017.html"> </a>
    <a href="part018.html"> </a>
    <a href="part019.html"> </a>
  </body>
</html>

It has the same problem. Part 019 comes very early in the book.

Any advice on how to work around this?

Sabardeyn · 04-02-2010, 09:33 PM

Okay, I'm not sure these ideas are of help, but it might point in the right direction...

1) I know that Windows (all versions as far as I know) consider digits in file names to be text, not numbers. But the way that you named the files should have automatically corrected for things.

2) The only other thing that comes to mind, which your list of files to include should have corrected, is that one of the original ebook formats (LRM? MOBI? Sorry, can't remember) allowed chapter files to be listed out of order, but it would display chapters in the correct order. However, when converting books, users would encounter the problem you're seeing. I think it was in the TOC or NCX file? Somwhere in it's files there is a listing and it doesn't list chapters as 001, 002, 003, etc but as 001, 019, 002, etc.

Sorry I cannot be of any more help.

kovidgoyal · 04-02-2010, 11:44 PM

Use --breadth-first

pedz · 04-09-2010, 08:31 AM

--breadth-first helps but it still gets some parts out of order. I'm now redoing the spin with a post process.

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04-02-2010, 09:33 PM	#2
Sabardeyn Guru Posts: 644 Karma: 1242364 Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Right Coast Device: PC (Calibre), Nexus 7 2013 (Moon+ Pro), HTC HD2/Leo (Freda)	Okay, I'm not sure these ideas are of help, but it might point in the right direction... 1) I know that Windows (all versions as far as I know) consider digits in file names to be text, not numbers. But the way that you named the files should have automatically corrected for things. 2) The only other thing that comes to mind, which your list of files to include should have corrected, is that one of the original ebook formats (LRM? MOBI? Sorry, can't remember) allowed chapter files to be listed out of order, but it would display chapters in the correct order. However, when converting books, users would encounter the problem you're seeing. I think it was in the TOC or NCX file? Somwhere in it's files there is a listing and it doesn't list chapters as 001, 002, 003, etc but as 001, 019, 002, etc. Sorry I cannot be of any more help.

04-02-2010, 11:44 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,845 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use --breadth-first

04-09-2010, 08:31 AM	#4
pedz Nameless Being	--breadth-first helps but it still gets some parts out of order. I'm now redoing the spin with a post process.

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