[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Coleccionista

On the topic of Saved Searches I'd love to see in Sigil or in a Sigil plugin something that would not rely on a static list of entries. I sometimes find myself working with an ebook that let's say has 100s of <i class="xx">...</i> but I cannot expect to know beforehand the contents.

I've been thinking of similar for a while.

There's portions of these things that exist, but nothing that combines them all into one super power user tool! :P

1. Replacing <i class="xyz"> -> <em>

It doesn't let you see the inner HTML, and you still have to do one-by-one cleanup (but it has regex capabilities for class names).

But the Sigil/Calibre plugins exist:

• DiapDealer's "TagMechanic" (Sigil)
• "Diap's Editing Tools" (Calibre)

I wrote a tutorial here:

• "How do I change italic <i> shortcut to use <em> instead?" (Post #22)

(These 2 plugins are incredibly high up in my workflow.)

It would be nice to be able to apply this in a nice list, then batch convert... but for that, see #2 below.

2. Style Mapping

This is a nice menu where you could see all current Styles, then you could assign them an equivalent HTML + class in the output.

InDesign and some of the Word->InDesign import tools have this.

For example, being able to say:

• Change my "Heading-2" InDesign style -> <h2 class="ABC"> in the EPUB.
• Change my "Heading-2" Word style -> "XYZ" InDesign style.

This is a video showing off InDesign's Style Mapping. And here are two Adobe pages explaining it in more detail:

• "Mapping Styles and Tags | Adobe Indesign Accessibility"
• Adobe InDesign | Paragraph and character styles

Also see lots of my links/posts in these two threads:

• "How to export indexes from indesign to epub" (Post #10)
• "<i>, <em> or <span> for italics?" (Post #96)

This would be an absolutely fantastic functionality to have in Calibre while converting... although I currently don't feel it fits within the scope of Sigil. (But I could be wrong!)

Partial Functionality: If the full-blown Style Mapper is too much, I'm imagining something similar to Tools > Delete Unused Stylesheet...

Maybe a "Consolidate Stylesheet", where you could map nearly redundant classes into each other (like those Word/InDesign CSS where dozens of classes are almost exact duplicates, with only a minuscule difference).

You could check a box (or map) "calibre1", "calibre2", "calibre10", then have it consolidate all those into a single "Clean1". :P

And similar to InDesign, it would be nice to have a little window below that showed you:

• the current class's CSS
• vs. the expected class's CSS

when you click on each Style.

3. "Spellcheck List" for Search

I also wrote about something similar last year:

• "<i>, <em> or <span> for italics ?" (Post #96)
  
  • See my bold part: Quicker and More Accurate Tagging

Past few years, I've "secretly" been using this concept of "Italic Lists" to catch typos/errors.

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

For example, ripping every single <i> out and sorting into an alphabetical list:

<i>Enciclopedia Italiana</i>
<i>New York Times</i>
<i>Volksgemeinschaft</i>
<i>Wall Street Journal</i>
<i>Washington Post</i>
<i>individual</i>
<i>laissez-faire</i>
<i>negative</i>

From a glance, you can usually tell which ones are meant to be <i> (newspapers, book titles, foreign words/terms) and which ones are <em> (individual words).

[...]

Splitting ALL italics, then sorted alphabetically + uniques... opens up a whole new class of previously missed errors.

<i>Wall Street Journal</i>
<i>Wa11 Street Journal</i>

right next to each other stands out like a sore thumb.

Having everything displayed beautifully in a "Sigil/Calibre Spellcheck List"-form would be super icing on top.

If there's some sort of editor out there that lets you mass search text/HTML + display similar to Sigil's Spellcheck List... I'd be EXTREMELY interested.

Note: Notepad++'s "Find All" displays in a chronological list form, although it displays the entire line. When working with long paragraphs, many times the hit is going to display off screen:



And there is an (unreleased) Sigil Plugin that let you search using Regex. The hits appear chronologically in the Validation Results, then you could double-click to jump to its exact location:



Helpful, but nowhere near as nice as Spellcheck Lists!

4. Marking Lang

I wrote a few non-standard ways you could hackishly use the Spellcheck Lists to accomplish this:

• "Is there a way to use the selection in a Saved Search?"

Sure, nothing as easy/fancy... but it "works".

But yeah... more extremely powerful "Spellcheck List"-like interfaces... ten thumbs up from me.

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I think the Style Mapper is the core to most of this.

Once that functionality gets introduced, I think the potential for the power tools like the "Lang Mapper" or "HTML+Class Mapper" or "Mass Replace Mapper" would follow.