Editing TOC Text

phossler · 05-21-2020, 03:22 PM

I converted all Hx's to Upper and then Title Case using the Regex function from the User's manual after being reminded that it was there.

There were a few words that were not correct and required manual correction which I noticed when updating the TOC

1. Acronyms - "MRI" became "Mri" after the Title Case. Same for "UFOs" became "Ufos". (expected)

2. Heading text in Quotes - <h1>This is "Impossible"</h1> became <h1>This is "impossible"</h1> (lower case i)(unexpected)

3. These sorts of things ae easy to see in the TOC edit window, and I thought I could fix the source text by editing the TOC entry, since it says "Double click on an entry to change the text". BUT it only changes the TOC entry, not the source text.

Would seem to me that

a. The Title Case function should / could ignore leading non-letter characters, or at least puncuation

b. Editing the TOC text would also update the source text, or at least provide a way to jump to the source for the TOC entry

Thanks

kovidgoyal · 05-21-2020, 11:22 PM

As far as I know, the titlecase function does ignore acronyms (all-upper case words). It does not ignore words in quotes, and its not clear to me it should.

As for editing source text, there is no such thing as source text. A toc entry could just point to a body tag aor an empty div, or not be the same as the heading text deliberately.

phossler · 05-22-2020, 10:44 AM

1. Title Case does ignore acronyms unless everything is in Upper Case; then it title cases everything (which is ok since how would it know it's an acronym)

Agree that it should not ignore words in quotes (wasn't exactly what I meant)

However, it works differently if Smarten Punctuation has been run, since while it handles a leading ASCII 34 correctly, leading curly quotes have a different result (Before-Quotes.jpg and After-Quotes.jpg)

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#id18

2. When I do the above from the User Manual to get the green line and right click (TOC.jpg) I get options to [Reload], [Save Page], and [View Page Source], but I can't get anything to happen when I click them.

I was expecting that [View Page Source] would open the edit window to that point

3. TOC View (TOC View.jpg) does link to the edit window which conveniently allows me to fix/change the TOC source, but it's not clear what [Refresh] does.

[Edit] does open the TOC editor and I can rebuild/refresh using that

kovidgoyal · 05-22-2020, 10:55 AM

1. I'm afraid I dont care enough about this. There is no well defined behavior for wordsin quotes, so the fact that it behaves differently for different types of quotes is not of great interest.

2. The right click menu is just accidental and shouldn't be there at all.

3. Refresh simpy reloads the ToC View, useful if you have edited the ncx/nav by hand.

05-21-2020, 03:22 PM	#1
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Editing TOC Text I converted all Hx's to Upper and then Title Case using the Regex function from the User's manual after being reminded that it was there. There were a few words that were not correct and required manual correction which I noticed when updating the TOC 1. Acronyms - "MRI" became "Mri" after the Title Case. Same for "UFOs" became "Ufos". (expected) 2. Heading text in Quotes - <h1>This is "Impossible"</h1> became <h1>This is "impossible"</h1> (lower case i)(unexpected) 3. These sorts of things ae easy to see in the TOC edit window, and I thought I could fix the source text by editing the TOC entry, since it says "Double click on an entry to change the text". BUT it only changes the TOC entry, not the source text. Would seem to me that a. The Title Case function should / could ignore leading non-letter characters, or at least puncuation b. Editing the TOC text would also update the source text, or at least provide a way to jump to the source for the TOC entry Thanks Attached Thumbnails Last edited by phossler; 05-21-2020 at 05:07 PM.

05-22-2020, 10:44 AM	#3
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	1. Title Case does ignore acronyms unless everything is in Upper Case; then it title cases everything (which is ok since how would it know it's an acronym) Agree that it should not ignore words in quotes (wasn't exactly what I meant) However, it works differently if Smarten Punctuation has been run, since while it handles a leading ASCII 34 correctly, leading curly quotes have a different result (Before-Quotes.jpg and After-Quotes.jpg) https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#id18 2. When I do the above from the User Manual to get the green line and right click (TOC.jpg) I get options to [Reload], [Save Page], and [View Page Source], but I can't get anything to happen when I click them. I was expecting that [View Page Source] would open the edit window to that point 3. TOC View (TOC View.jpg) does link to the edit window which conveniently allows me to fix/change the TOC source, but it's not clear what [Refresh] does. [Edit] does open the TOC editor and I can rebuild/refresh using that Attached Thumbnails

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05-21-2020, 11:22 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,318 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	As far as I know, the titlecase function does ignore acronyms (all-upper case words). It does not ignore words in quotes, and its not clear to me it should. As for editing source text, there is no such thing as source text. A toc entry could just point to a body tag aor an empty div, or not be the same as the heading text deliberately.

05-22-2020, 10:55 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,318 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1. I'm afraid I dont care enough about this. There is no well defined behavior for wordsin quotes, so the fact that it behaves differently for different types of quotes is not of great interest. 2. The right click menu is just accidental and shouldn't be there at all. 3. Refresh simpy reloads the ToC View, useful if you have edited the ncx/nav by hand.

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