In the
EPUB standard, one can define reference/"paper" page numbers. I'm glad I filed a feature request that got implemented by Goyal (tysm!) allowing one to see the numbers from the calibre reader. However, a lot of EPUBs mess up defining their page numbers—a simple regex fixes these by defining
epub:type="pagebreak" for each, but what's annoying is generating the above-linked
nav pagelist element from all the
epub:type="pagebreak" elements in the content. Most readers (correctly) don't bother looking for page numbers to display if they're not defined by a
nav pagelist element in
nav.xhtml or somewhere.
So, that's what I'm requesting, a tool that generates a compliant
nav pagelist from all the elements with loose
epub:type="pagebreak" in an EPUB's content, then fills each item (
see here) according to the element's
title attribute, and stashes the generated list in
nav.xhtml.
Sorry if that was incomprehensible—very few people seem to care about fixed EPUB page numbers except for me. They're indispensable for my ability to properly cite books I'm reading for research.
