Bookmarks - dual language book

[geniale]

I have a book in spanish and english (a dual translation). In the spanish book i have many bookmarks links to an index that the book has. But the english book doesn't has those bookmarks links.

The files structures:
cap1_es
cap1_en
cap2_es
cap2_en
and so on....

and the html code of the spanish bookmarks links are:
<a data-index="18es"><sup class="bkm">18</sup></a>
<a data-index="19es"><sup class="bkm">19</sup></a>

Is there a way to copy ALL the bookmarks from the spanish books to the english books? From the cap1_es copy the bookmark to cap1_en.

Thanks for your help!!!

[geniale]

I see that nobody can help me. Isn't there any way to copy a text from a book to another book? I think that it should be a Regex Function, no?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by geniale

I see that nobody can help me. Isn't there any way to copy a text from a book to another book? I think that it should be a Regex Function, no?

The Regex only works within a book and you can only open 1 book in an editor session.
Besides, I don't see how REGEX is a simple solution. You need to identify the target.

If you have multiple monitors, you could use the CLI to open 2 editor sessions (2 Monitors leaves both in front ) and copy and paste between

[geniale]

Originally Posted by theducks

The Regex only works within a book and you can only open 1 book in an editor session.
Besides, I don't see how REGEX is a simple solution. You need to identify the target.

If you have multiple monitors, you could use the CLI to open 2 editor sessions (2 Monitors leaves both in front ) and copy and paste between

My origin file: cap1_es
My origen text: <a data-index="18es"><sup class="bkm">18</sup></a>

My target file: cap1_en
My target text: <sup class="bkm">18</sup>

I want this origen text <a data-index="18es"> in the target text.

I have found this in a web site:
Capture the group you're interested in (ie, between quotes), extract the matches from each line, then write them one per line to the new file, eg:

import re

with open('input') as fin, open('output', 'w') as fout:
for line in fin:
matches = re.findall('"(.*?)"', line)
fout.writelines(match + '\n' for match in matches)

Is it a possible solution?

[eschwartz]

Yes, if you're willing to write a plugin to do it...

You're trying to lift information from one part of the book and use it as inspiration to modify another part of the book.



Although you could fit it into a regex function, but that would be a very complex regex function I'd think.
Theoretically you could rewrite many/most plugins as a regex function, if you really wanted to, but it wouldn't make anything easier.

[jbacelar]

One solution, if I understand correctly:
Use a regex only for the selected files: cap1_en, etc. (Selected in the file browser).

Search: <sup class="bkm">(\d+)</sup>

Replace: <a data-index="\1es"><sup class="bkm">\1</sup></a>

[Thom*]

If the English version has no bookmarks, how could you use search to find the place to insert the bookmark? Search for "Caliente" in the Spanish book, capture the link, search for "Hot" in the English book, paste the revised link. If I understand your situation correctly, I don't see how it can be done.

[Thom*]

Looking at your situation a little differently. If your English version has the <sup..../sup> language in it and you just want to wrap the link around it, then you could:

Search for: <sup class="bkm">(.*?)</sup>
Replace with: <a data-index="\1es"><sup class="bkm">\1</sup></a>

I am not really sure what exactly you have.

Oops, I think you wanted "en" not "es". So change the replace to:
<a data-index="\1en"><sup class="bkm">\1</sup></a>