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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Yeah, that's also why I was downplaying wanting to go from their NCX backwards into the HTML itself.
For the most part, the NCX is messed up and I actually want to overwrite with my clean, beautiful code!  |
It's funny, I find that most often, no matter how abominable the xhtml code is, the ncx / toc is usually okay. Weird eh? I do wish I could magically overwrite all the html and css with my own clean, beautiful code though.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Another case which might also be helpful is:
Original TOC:
Code:
“Article Title” by Author Last
Original HTML:
Code:
<h2>Article Title</h2>
<p class="author">Author Last</p>
"Proper" Sigil HTML:
Code:
<h2 title="“Article Title” by Author Last">Article Title</h2>
<p class="author">Author Last</p>
99% of the time you want to go HTML->NCX (thus the Sigil Generate TOC), but 1% of the time, you might want to go backwards. |
See, now you're getting it.
I don't know how many % it is, certainly I wouldn't need it every day, but nonetheless it would be useful pretty often. Just in the past two weeks, I've had to work on files I didn't originally make for:
- splitting a book into individual tomes
- grouping 14 books into 1 (current project)
- add the first chapter of a new book (which I did make), to 2 other previously published books (which I didn't make), as a preview
- add a new introduction to a book I didn't originally make.
The worst is definitely the current 14-book collection if only for the sheer volume, but the splitting project was annoying as well (that was the one with the fake smallcaps and also I had to renumber all the chapters of the second book after the split to start from 1 instead of 35 or whatever it was; thank god for the AddIDs plugin which at least made that part easy
). But I would definitely use a backwards-ncx plugin often enough to make me really really wish I knew how to code it myself.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Oh, I have it all written down... I have it all...
And French with their "XIVth Century" stuff, or their little superscript e.
Side Note: One of my favorite games, Europa Universalis IV, takes place during the ~1450s-1850s, and has fans from around the world who are super into history. When discussing history on forums, since most are ESL (English as Second Language), they bring in all these quirky language styles from around the world. |
Haaa, okay, I understand better how you know all this stuff.