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mrmikel · 02-22-2013, 04:30 PM

I had an usual thing happen to me today.

I was working on a document which I had previously sent out as a LRF and I had done it originally all by hand and put it into calibre to convert.

I brought the epub which has been created into Sigil 7 and neatened it up and so on. I ran Flight Crew and it found many ids that were just numbers.

I deleted all of the ids and inserted new anchors and links myself, using the Sigil menus.

Then I generated a TOC to clean things up and use the new ids. I saved.

When I ran Flight Crew, it reported all the old ids in content.opf.

Even though I eliminated them, they were still there, probably because they weren't supposed to make it there in the first place. I added a p in front of each number in the manifest, then the same in the spine, then it reported no more errors.

I was under the impression that I shouldn't need to meddle like this unless I chose to....which I generally do not. It is enough to pound these old books into shape without having to do skeletal surgery!

Or did I miss something somewhere?

02-22-2013, 04:30 PM	#1
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	Sigil 7 I had an usual thing happen to me today. I was working on a document which I had previously sent out as a LRF and I had done it originally all by hand and put it into calibre to convert. I brought the epub which has been created into Sigil 7 and neatened it up and so on. I ran Flight Crew and it found many ids that were just numbers. I deleted all of the ids and inserted new anchors and links myself, using the Sigil menus. Then I generated a TOC to clean things up and use the new ids. I saved. When I ran Flight Crew, it reported all the old ids in content.opf. Even though I eliminated them, they were still there, probably because they weren't supposed to make it there in the first place. I added a p in front of each number in the manifest, then the same in the spine, then it reported no more errors. I was under the impression that I shouldn't need to meddle like this unless I chose to....which I generally do not. It is enough to pound these old books into shape without having to do skeletal surgery! Or did I miss something somewhere?