Chapter detection for roman numerals??

[g25]

Hi, when I convert I would like calibre to detect roman numeral chapters. These chapters don't have the word "chapter" in them, just:
I
II
III
IV
etc..

I figured something like:
[IVXLCDM]+ but I'm not sure exactly how to write it into the
"detect chapter" Xpath expression under the Structural Detection section. Some of the books have the <h2> class tag and some of them have the normal <p> class tag. What would be the exact expression I would use in the xpath line that would detect any combination of "IVXLCDM" as chapters?

Thanks!

[eschwartz]

Better question: What XPath would also manage to avoid the "I" as in, "you and I"?
You need more semantic information.


Are there any unique classes or ids used in the <p> chapter tags?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by g25

Hi, when I convert I would like calibre to detect roman numeral chapters. These chapters don't have the word "chapter" in them, just:
I
II
III
IV
etc..

I figured something like:
[IVXLCDM]+ but I'm not sure exactly how to write it into the
"detect chapter" Xpath expression under the Structural Detection section. Some of the books have the <h2> class tag and some of them have the normal <p> class tag. What would be the exact expression I would use in the xpath line that would detect any combination of "IVXLCDM" as chapters?

Thanks!

I don't remember ever seeing a chapter in the M range
D, did I forget one

I do a lot of my work with the editor, rather than fight a special case Xpath.

Beware the Lone I (I want more) in other places. The Roman Numerals need to exist as the only string between tags or along with a limited set of defined keywords
([CLXVI]{1,7}) is the basic part of my EDITOR search term

The TOC tool (also inside the editor) allows all sorts of solutions for indexing a book.

[g25]

well ([CLXVI]{1,7}) works but unfortunately grabs every other sentence that starts with those letters :/

Anyway to tell it to do ONLY the roman numerals that are on a line by themselves?

[g25]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Better question: What XPath would also manage to avoid the "I" as in, "you and I"?
You need more semantic information.


Are there any unique classes or ids used in the <p> chapter tags?

Nope. The classes/ids aren't unique at all. The roman numerals are on a line by themselves though. Can't we have an expression that says: Look for any combination of these roman numerals that reside on a line by themselves?

Or reside within ANY tag that has NO other text but a combination of this ([CLXVI]{1,7}) ?

[g25]

Ah got it I think:

//*[re:test(., '[CLXVI]+$')]

seems to work!

[gbm]

Originally Posted by g25

Nope. The classes/ids aren't unique at all. The roman numerals are on a line by themselves though. Can't we have an expression that says: Look for any combination of these roman numerals that reside on a line by themselves?

Or reside within ANY tag that has NO other text but a combination of this ([CLXVI]{1,7}) ?

Using the editor this will find the roman numerals that reside on a line by themselves, but you will need to run it using find next, then edit chapter heading manually.
*

>([CLXVI]{1,7})<

*Assumes that there are no spaces before or after the roman numerals.

bernie