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Old 10-23-2012, 04:38 AM   #1
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how to get chapter title from filename

Hi

In my document each chapter is a seperat xhtml-file. In the orginal, all chapters had only '*' as heading - so in the table of content, I have only al lot of *.
Ist there a way to use the filenames / nummers ( all xhtmlfiles are in right order from 0001 to 0020) for table of content and fill the in automaticaly?

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Old 10-23-2012, 12:32 PM   #2
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If I understand you correctly, you want to have a toc that that lists the chapters (e.g. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc), but you don't want to have this shown on the actual page, just have a * as the displayed chapter name.

How odd.

What you could do is add a title to each of the * headings like the following example:

Code:
<h2 title="Chapter 1">*</h2>
This method will tell Sigil to use the text in the title tag for the toc and not the actual displayed text.
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Old 10-23-2012, 03:24 PM   #3
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I think he/she means the opposite. The chapter headings are already "*". So that's what appears in the ToC. I believe they're looking for a way to use the physical individual chapter file (*.html) names to automatically fix the chapter heading and subsequently (I'm guessing) rebuild the ToC with the then corrected names.

Find and Replace with/without regex is the only possible way of automatically generating/changing those chapter headers (and thus the ToC) ... and to my knowledge, there's no provision for search and replace to access (or use) the underlying file's name in an F&R routine.

Although technically, you could use regex on the toc.ncx file ... and as long as the play orders start with 1 and increment by 1 (you can automatically renumber them if not), you could capture the play order with regex and then use that number to build a new <text> entry:

Find:
Code:
<navPoint id="(.*?)" playOrder="(\d+)">\s+<navLabel>\s+<text>.*?</text>
Replace:
Code:
<navPoint id="\1" playOrder="\2"><navLabel><text>Chapter \2</text>
(or something to that effect. I was just winging that example, so be sure to check the toc.ncx to make sure I didn't make some glaring error)

The expression could probably be made a lot cleaner, but I thought someone mentioned that there's issues with \K and look(ahead|behind)s in the latest beta.

NOTE: the above would fix the ToC, but do nothing to the chapter headings.
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Old 10-23-2012, 05:33 PM   #4
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You may be right.

I think we need the OP to better explain the situation, but on closer inspection, your response may be what they are after.
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You may be right.

I think we need the OP to better explain the situation, but on closer inspection, your response may be what they are after.
Unless the OP has a huge amount of files to process I would advise him to just fix the titles in the source manually and regenerate TOC, it's only 20 (searchable) entries. If he for some reason wants to keep the star instead of Chapter XX (which would be a bit confusing to the reader) your title="" method is probably better than toc.ncx regex trickery, as that will be stored in case of later TOC regenerations.
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If he for some reason wants to keep the star instead of Chapter XX (which would be a bit confusing to the reader) your title="" method is probably better than toc.ncx regex trickery
Hey pal... my "toc.ncx regex trickery" is the biggety-bomb! Don't you forget it.

Spoiler:
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Hey pal... my "toc.ncx regex trickery" is the biggety-bomb! Don't you forget it.

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I love regex trickery as much as the next guy, but in this case... well OK, it's the bomb
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Old 12-28-2012, 05:52 AM   #8
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I have a somewhat similar problem. I have in excess of 500 htm files from a decompiled CHM (for just one book, but a few have the same problem):

1.that have individual sub-chapters as different htm files in different folders to denote main chapters (numbered 1 to 12)
2.the original CHM creators never bothered heading their documents, so there is no way to generate a TOC in the first place

Since we can't use folders in Sigil, or EPUB for that matter to distinguish the loads of htm files, I would have to batch rename files to match their main chapters as there a few that are the same (e.g. Introduction) (which I'm okay with).

Finding and replacing tags through all selected html files seems the way to go to create a TOC. But the suitable tag I could find is, for example, below:

Code:
 
    <div id="printheader_crumbtrail">
      &gt; Front of Book &gt; Conflicts of interest: none declared
    </div>

Question is, how do I find and replace these tags (or what regex do I use)?

Or maybe other ways?
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Old 12-28-2012, 06:50 AM   #9
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Code:
 
    <div id="printheader_crumbtrail">
      &gt; Front of Book &gt; Conflicts of interest: none declared
    </div>

Question is, how do I find and replace these tags (or what regex do I use)?
You could use the following very simple regular expression:

Find: <div id="printheader_crumbtrail">\s+(.*?)\s+</div>
Replace: <h3>\1</h3>

However, before you do that you may want to search for dedicated CHM-to-EPUB converters first. There are a couple of standalone programs and some free websites, e.g. Zamzar that will convert .chm files to epubs.
You could then use Sigil to fine-tune the epub.
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Old 12-28-2012, 07:24 AM   #10
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Ooops. Terribly sorry, I didn't specify that what I want is to make it :

Code:
    <h1 id="printheader_crumbtrail">
      &gt; Front of Book &gt; Conflicts of interest: none declared
    </h1>
Which what happens when I manually edit using the h1 tag on the Book View.

And <div id="printheader_crumbtrail">\s+(.*?)\s+</div> doesn't seem to work.

Also I can't convert the CHM to epub due to a broken TOC that omits one main chapter (and I've tried Calibre and a few other options), so building it through Sigil seems a much a straightforward job (there's also a weird problem of loss of character sets when I try rebuilding the CHM using WinCHM so I'd rather preserve the decompiled files that retain their appearance in Sigil).
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And <div id="printheader_crumbtrail">\s+(.*?)\s+</div> doesn't seem to work.
Did you download the latest Sigil version and change Mode from Normal to Regex?
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Ahaha! Sorry, I didn't know had to change the mode to regex. Thanks! Works perfectly!
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Also, it seems like I'd rather put my work through Sigil than Calibre on all the other decompiled CHMs with this method (since they are bereft of headings)! Thanks again!
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