Doing the splits

[mrmikel]

Is there a particular reason to do the splits in preview?

In the OCR'ed junk I work with, chapter starts are not always located on a paragraph, but on a break.

If you do the split on the desired location at the chapter break, then it breaks at the beginning of the paragraph before, including material in the following chapter, or leaving out the chapter start.

Since it is necessary to inspect the HTML anyway, how about at least the option for a split in the code panel?

Thanks for the option to unsync the two panels. It would have been very helpful when I was doing alterations from paragraph to heading...if I had remembered to use it because updating with them synced takes forever!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

Is there a particular reason to do the splits in preview?

In the OCR'ed junk I work with, chapter starts are not always located on a paragraph, but on a break.

If you do the split on the desired location at the chapter break, then it breaks at the beginning of the paragraph before, including material in the following chapter, or leaving out the chapter start.

Since it is necessary to inspect the HTML anyway, how about at least the option for a split in the code panel?

Thanks for the option to unsync the two panels. It would have been very helpful when I was doing alterations from paragraph to heading...if I had remembered to use it because updating with them synced takes forever!

IMHO
One reason is the green line will only land at a (as coded) valid AUTOMATIC split point.
You can't split inside a Span or Div or Blockquote without a lot of user help

The normal Split is Sigil was at the cursor. EXCEPT when the cursor was inside a tag pair and the results were not what you expected , sometimes, not even close

IMHO this way is better in that aspect

What I have not found is a way to programatically insert a split point using my friend REGEX.
In Sigil, I just inserted the "Sigil split Marker" code, then triggered the split using F6.

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by theducks

IMHO

What I have not found is a way to programatically insert a split point using my friend REGEX.
In Sigil, I just inserted the "Sigil split Marker" code, then triggered the split using F6.

That is my usual workflow as well. Starting with a single file containing all the chapters, I place markers ahead of the chapter headers, as well as other break points (which are not defined by chapter headings) such as within the frontmatter and endmatter. Then do all the splits at once.

IIRC some time back Kovid mentioned implementing a bulk chapter split using the Calibre chapter split routine (which is based on xpath expressions rather than regex). That sounds like it would work for me, though I'd probably have to remove the split markers later.

[kovidgoyal]

As I mentioned in the gigantic how to make sigil thread, adding a programmatic way to split a file in multiple locations at once is on my todo list, but it will use XPath, not regex.

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

As I mentioned in the gigantic how to make sigil thread, adding a programmatic way to split a file in multiple locations at once is on my todo list, but it will use XPath, not regex.

So, then would it work like chapter detection works in Calibre?

If so, given an epub in which the whole book is in one file, could I insert, say,

<hr class="chapter-spllit" /hr>

at the points I want to split, and then use an xpath expression something like

//h:hr[re:test(@class, "chapter-split", "i")]

so that it would split the file at all the indicated points?

(And hopefully naming them something like "split_1", split_2" ... rather than "split_1", "split_1_1" ... since there could be (usually would be) several dozen splits.)

That would work for me.

[kovidgoyal]

yes .

[theducks]

Originally Posted by st_albert

<hr class="chapter-spllit" /hr>

That would work for me.

This code is malformed if you are using self closing notation

<hr class="chapter-spllit" />

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by theducks

This code is malformed if you are using self closing notation

<hr class="chapter-spllit" />

Oops.

First time that's ever happened to me.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by st_albert

Oops.

First time that's ever happened to me.

just noticed, look at the spelling of split
I hope this was not a cut and paste

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by theducks

just noticed, look at the spelling of split
I hope this was not a cut and paste

Heh. No, thank goodness. I just made it up on the fly, which is my usual procedure for getting into trouble.