Sigil 0.6.2 Released

[meme]

So just a few things then

The ability to search "just down" or "just up" is basically searching without wrapping. And as it happens the next version will have a wrap/no-wrap option for Find & Replace.

There isn't any way to do counters in regex that I know of - but if there is I'd be glad to here about it. I've been wondering about a special search tool that could handle counters - but haven't worked out exactly what to do. Having specific examples of where something like this would be useful starting place. Usually the problem is that the counter needs to be updated identically in more than one place. I doubt it would do Roman numerals though

But what are you actually doing with the changes. Just updating the heading ids? Updating the ids to match the heading text or title. Do you have some specific before and after examples?

[Turtle91]

Great news on the wrap/no wrap!
I suppose I could make a REALLY LONG saved group for the roman numerals....

I was inserting id's to match the heading text in a condensed format. "Ch_1" for "Chapter 1", "Pt_2" for "Part 2", etc. I thought that would provide a more intuitive meaning than a generic sequence number when I review links - especially in other files.

example:
original headings
<h2>Part 1</h2>
<h3>1</h3>
<h3>2</h3>
<h3>3</h3>
<h2>Part 2</h2>
<h3>1</h3>
<h3>2</h3>
<h3>3</h3>
yadda, yadda

Replace Part headers: Find <h2>Part (.*?)</h2> Replace <h2 id="Pt_\1">Part \1</h2>
Replace Chapter headers: Find <h3>(.*?)</h3> Replace <h3 id="Ch_\1">\1</h3>

gives <h2 id="Pt_1">Part 1</h2> <h3 id="Ch_3">Chapter 3</h3>

This results in duplicate Chapter id's so I go to the beginning of each part and replace to the end (without wrap):
Find id="Ch_(.*?)"> Replace "Ch_1-\1">
/* which changes ALL the chapter headings but still have duplicates.

Then go to part 2
Find id="Ch_1-(.*?)"> Replace "Ch_2-\1">
/* which changes ALL the chapter remaining headings EXCEPT part 1

Then go to part 3
Find id="Ch_2-(.*?)"> Replace "Ch_3-\1">
/* which changes ALL the chapter remaining headings EXCEPT part 1 and part 2

etc, until the end of the file

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by mibtp

Hi, I also have Mac OS x 10.6.8 and this version will not launch on my system. There is a slash though the icon.

Any other versions I should look into?

Thanks.
Patrice

How odd. Perhaps your download has got corrupted in some way. If you do a Get Info on it, it should say:

Kind: Application (Intel)
Size: 77.7MB
[...]
Version: 0.6.2

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

I would like a "just down" or "just up" option if it's possible.

As an example:
Sometimes the books I edit have different "parts", Part 1, Part 2, etc.

Each Part's chapters restart numbering from chapter 1 instead of being continuous through the whole book.

So when I use a search replace to create an id for the chapter head I begin at the new Part and replace all following chapters with the part number and chapter...then do that again with the next part. so I get id="Ch_1-1", id="Ch_1-2"..., id="Ch_2-1", id="Ch_2-2"...etc. Some of these books have > 100 chapters.

If it circles back and replaces the parts that I've done already then it wastes the effort.

Having said that:
There is probably some more elaborate regex I could create to check for the existence of the "-" in an id, I just haven't figured it out.

Ideally, there would be some process where I could use a counter when replacing, so I could just use id="Ch_1" to id="Ch_100"...does anyone know if there is such a "counter"??

And if there is a counter...can I shoot for the moon and get a function that will insert roman numerals??!!?? (id="Ch_69" title="LXIX")

I'm not familiar with the Sigil version of RegEx.

My editor (epp) has a counter which will number a list sequentially.

<h2 id="Ch_%MATCH%">

Perhaps there is something similar in Sigil.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

So when I use a search replace to create an id for the chapter head I begin at the new Part and replace all following chapters with the part number and chapter...then do that again with the next part. so I get id="Ch_1-1", id="Ch_1-2"..., id="Ch_2-1", id="Ch_2-2"...etc. Some of these books have > 100 chapters.

You don't actually need an ID. Each chapter should be a separate XML file. The ToC would just point to the file. No need to point to the ID just to go to the start of a given chapter. if I am modifying the code, IDs that are not needed do have to go.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by crutledge

I'm not familiar with the Sigil version of RegEx.

My editor (epp) has a counter which will number a list sequentially.

<h2 id="Ch_%MATCH%">

Perhaps there is something similar in Sigil.

hmmmm...I'll have to look to see what flavor of regex the two are. Thanks!

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You don't actually need an ID. Each chapter should be a separate XML file. The ToC would just point to the file. No need to point to the ID just to go to the start of a given chapter. if I am modifying the code, IDs that are not needed do have to go.

Doesn't Sigil automatically generate a sequenced id for any TOC entries that DON'T have an id??

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Doesn't Sigil automatically generate a sequenced id for any TOC entries that DON'T have an id??

That is what I see

I use 1 chapter per file for my final save

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Doesn't Sigil automatically generate a sequenced id for any TOC entries that DON'T have an id??

I remove those too.

[meme]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I remove those too.

Interesting. Since Generate TOC points to the filename for headings near the top of a file it does not actually use the id in the TOC.

So there is no reason why we can't skip creating a Sigil-generating id for the heading if its not used by the TOC because its at the top of the file. We already skip creating an id if a heading is marked as not included in the TOC.

And if you do want an id for the heading, you can always manually enter one. Its only the Sigil-generated ids that get removed when they aren't used.

[Turtle91]

I hadn't really thought of not putting id's in my chapter headers. I suppose that comes from making single page HTML For the last several years - its become a habit. But you are right. It certainly isn't needed.

Originally Posted by meme

So there is no reason why we can't skip creating a Sigil-generating id for the heading if its not used by the TOC because its at the top of the file. We already skip creating an id if a heading is marked as not included in the TOC.

In older versions of Sigil I noticed it would auto generate id's if a heading was not used in the TOC. I used to use <h6> as a scene break but got tired of seeing the "id=sgc not used" popping up so I switched to <p class="scenebreak">. I haven't looked for that in the recent version, but if Sigil got away from inserting those unnecessary tags that's awesome!

[Notjohn]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is that the virtual TOC created by Sigil? If I have an actual, hyperlinked TOC, I still need id="chapter01" or whatever, right?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by meme

Interesting. Since Generate TOC points to the filename for headings near the top of a file it does not actually use the id in the TOC.

So there is no reason why we can't skip creating a Sigil-generating id for the heading if its not used by the TOC because its at the top of the file. We already skip creating an id if a heading is marked as not included in the TOC.

And if you do want an id for the heading, you can always manually enter one. Its only the Sigil-generated ids that get removed when they aren't used.

Consistancy!
If you use id's, then use them all places.
I know I when my REGEX fails to find some headings, only to discover some have a different orginazation: IN THE SAME BOOK.

And since some folk like to 'Max out' file size before splitting: some will have many chapters, not just one

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by Notjohn

Is that the virtual TOC created by Sigil? If I have an actual, hyperlinked TOC, I still need id="chapter01" or whatever, right?

No, you don't "need" an id if the header is at the top of the file....as it is when you split your book into different files for each chapter. Opening a link to a file automatically displays the top/beginning of the file unless another location is specified.

The link for going to the beginning of my Ch_4.html file is:

href="Ch_4.html"

If you had an id="Ch_4" for the header (or if you want to go to a sub-heading somewhere within the file) that link would look like

href="Ch_4.html#Ch_4" or href="Ch_4.html#sub-head_3"

[meme]

Originally Posted by theducks

Consistancy!
If you use id's, then use them all places.
I know I when my REGEX fails to find some headings, only to discover some have a different orginazation: IN THE SAME BOOK.

And since some folk like to 'Max out' file size before splitting: some will have many chapters, not just one

The issue is that Generate TOC creates ids for headings that it needs. It does not current generate ids for headings that are excluded from the TOC (like it used to before 0.6.x). Since Generate TOC only links to the filename for the heading at the top of a file, it does not use an id for that heading. So it should not create an id that it doesn't need to use. So I've modified the code to stop creating the unnecessary ids. We did try linking to just the id instead of the filename for the heading at the top, but that didn't go well as it broke some situations.

Of course, if you add ids to any headings manually, then they'll still be there. And now if you want to link directly to the ids, you can just use the new Edit TOC function.