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Originally Posted by akita328
Wow! this is goldmine of information! thank you!
will be bookmarking these and learn more.
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Here's one more too:
You can always type stuff like this into your favorite search engines too:
Code:
cleanup CSS EPUB Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
regular expressions Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
That will lead you to any answers you need. (It's what I do whenever I need to dig up links to my old answers.)
I've written entire encyclopedias of tips/tricks/problems/anything-to-do with ebooks + ebook cleanup!
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Originally Posted by akita328
Not to worry. I have looked at all the classes, and verified what they are doing. many of them were duplicates... so I did a find/replace to consolidate several different labels into a single one.
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That's
exactly what KevinH's CSSToolbox was meant to accomplish!
It would let you:
- Select a class
- See all 100% exact (or very similar) CSS classes
then let you merge any "duplicates" into 1 class at the push of a button.
Instead of you manually doing multiple rounds of this, via Diap's TagMechanic + conversions + lots of elbow grease, it would cut down the cleanup work dramatically.
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Side Note: KevinH's CSSToolbox isn't out yet, but will be in the near-future!
For now, you have to settle on rounds of Calibre EPUB->EPUB conversions with manual trash removal in the middle.
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Right-Click Trick (to Rename Classes)
Another timesaving trick you can do in Sigil/Calibre is:
- Right-Click on a class name in your HTML.
Now you can "Rename" that class to something more human-readable.
For example:
Code:
<p>This is a word in <span class="junk123">italics</span>.</p>
<p>Even <span class="junk123">more</span> in <span class="junk123">italics</span>.</p>
Right-Click on the
class="" part of it, then you can
- Change "junk123" -> "italics"
and it will auto-replace all others in the book too:
Code:
<p>This is a word in <span class="italics">italics</span>.</p>
<p>Even <span class="italics">more</span> in <span class="italics">italics</span>.</p>
Now, when you're doing your Diap rounds later, it makes it so much easier to see
exactly what you marked as the code's intent. Then you could easily:
Code:
<p>This is a word in <i>italics</i>.</p>
<p>Even <i>more</i> in <i>italics</i>.</p>
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Side Note #2: I manually did a lot of that Find/Replace stuff way back when... then the Right-Click trick was initially in Calibre, then Sigil added it recently.
Now it's
so much faster than it used to be!
And that's pretty much how I initially came up with the concept for CSSToolbox...
Instead of manually flipping back-and-forth through the classes + CSS, then renaming the stuff...
I'll soon be able to yell at CSSToolbox:
"Hey! You know those dozen classes junk123, junk456, junk789... that are all effectively italics? How about you just find/rename those all for me in one shot?"
And:
"Hey! Help find my almost-twins! How about you merge/rename those for me too?"
Then it'll turn hundreds of
Right-Click > Renames + lots of cross-eyed CSS compares into a few button presses too!