Regexp help - I think...

paulfiera · 07-18-2011, 06:14 AM

I'm working in fixing some epubs and have discovered that on some of them, on every page there is over 50 KB of inline style font definitions like this:

Quote:

@font-face {
font-family: Meiryo;
panose-1: 2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;
mso-font-charset: 128;
mso-generic-font-family: swiss;
mso-font-pitch: variable;
mso-font-signature: -536870145 1791492095 18 0 131081 0
}

I'd like to remove everything inside the style tags during a conversion. I don't know if I could use a regexp in Search & Replace for this or even a built-in feature in calibre or any plugin.

So far, I've been exploding the epubs and manualy removing all these font definitions with UltraEdit but it would be really great if I could do it at the time of conversion.

Many thanks
PF

user_none · 07-18-2011, 08:00 AM

If it's part of the HTML itself search and replace will work. Search and replace however does not run over .css files. You could try:

Code:

(?mu)<style>.+</style>

as the search code. This should remove every style tag inline in the HTML.

paulfiera · 07-18-2011, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

If it's part of the HTML itself search and replace will work. Search and replace however does not run over .css files. You could try:

Code:

(?mu)<style>.+</style>

as the search code. This should remove every style tag inline in the HTML.

Many thanks user_none.

Yes. It's inline style in the html, xhtml documents.

I've tried putting

Code:

(?mu)<style>.+</style>

in the First Expression in Search Regular Expression and Replacement Text, blank, but I end with all the font declarations in this format:

Quote:

@font-face {
font-family: DotumChe
}

It looks like the calibre conversion already strips many of the font attributes, but not the font declarations.

I also tried

Code:

(?mu)<style.+</style>

Note the missing closing tag in the first style occurrence, as in the html files it's declared as

Code:

<style type="text/css">

but same results.

cybmole · 07-20-2011, 02:34 AM

i remove that stuff with the find replace feature in Sigil. just paste the whole chunk into the find box & replace with nothing. works fine, even across multiple line breaks.

paulfiera · 07-20-2011, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybmole

i remove that stuff with the find replace feature in Sigil. just paste the whole chunk into the find box & replace with nothing. works fine, even across multiple line breaks.

Thanks, cybmole.

I guess I'll have to do that.

07-18-2011, 08:00 AM	#2
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	If it's part of the HTML itself search and replace will work. Search and replace however does not run over .css files. You could try: Code: (?mu)<style>.+</style> as the search code. This should remove every style tag inline in the HTML.

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