LRF output

[maggotb0y]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You need to run make

make -C src/libprs500/gui2/

As always, you know your stuff. I built the new SVN under the VM image and tested converting some documents and they're not quite right (quite possible I don't know the appropriate switches- the only one i used is --book-designer). Here's what I've noticed on the first round:

• <SPAN ID=title> should become a chapter title, the chapter isn't being generated
• images aren't included
• <SPAN id=subtitle>should be in the document, but it isn't

So I've created another test document for you (this time with images) and included the document the LRF that book designer generates for your comparison.

[kovidgoyal]

Bug in the BD regexp fixed in svn

[maggotb0y]

Kovid-

The formatting is getting better now, here are some new observations (and one question)

1)images in the lrf generated from the test book i posted aren't centered
2) the pagebreak (<hr>) before the first chapter in the sample posted doesn't get picked up correctly by html2lrf
3) images in some other books aren't getting picked up right. In another document this image:
<DIV align=center><IMG hspace=0 src="chapter1.jpg" align=baseline border=0></DIV>
isn't picked up
4) Would you prefer I enter these types of comments as tickets on your trac page? and do you prefer 1 ticket per comment or one "round-up" ticket?

Thanks again as always.

[kovidgoyal]

The image centering is simply because in html2lrf images are usually inline, so they aren't centred. I could add some code to the preprocessor to generate centered images.

Yeah, tickets help me keep track of things.

[maggotb0y]

Jeez, you're fast.

Okay, from now on I will enter comments as tickets.

One thing I forgot to ask. Is it possible to have the first paragraph of every chapter use drop caps? I have looked around a bit, but I don't see that documented (seems like it is basically supposed to be in the atributes of the par in the HTML?) It would be a nice feature when converting from another format to be able to specify that as an option.

Also, in what file or group of files does the BD pre-processor lie? I've not used Python before, but I am a developer and I'm fairly comfortable with regex's so I may be able to offer more useful suggestions if I know where to look.

Also, how does drop caps handle an open quote or an open smart quote before the first letter?

Finally (for now), is there a guide to getting a python environment up and running under Windows that would be approprate for compiling libprs500? If not, I'll do my best to get things running and write a guide for others to follow.

[kovidgoyal]

There isn't an option to enable drop caps, open a ticket and I'll get it done.
it uses the css pseudo-selector first-letter. And at the moment, it doesnt handle quotes. Add that to the ticket and I'll implement it.

All the code (except for table handling) for html2lrf is in the file html/convert_from.py look for the variable BOOK_DESIGNER

There isn't a guide for windows. It's a pretty laborious process in which you have to install Unix toolchain to compile dependencies and so on.

EDIT: Actually now that i think of it having a dropcaps on every paragraph would be pretty weird.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by maggotb0y

Kovid-

The formatting is getting better now, here are some new observations (and one question)

1)images in the lrf generated from the test book i posted aren't centered
2) the pagebreak (<hr>) before the first chapter in the sample posted doesn't get picked up correctly by html2lrf
3) images in some other books aren't getting picked up right. In another document this image:
<DIV align=center><IMG hspace=0 src="chapter1.jpg" align=baseline border=0></DIV>
isn't picked up
4) Would you prefer I enter these types of comments as tickets on your trac page? and do you prefer 1 ticket per comment or one "round-up" ticket?

Thanks again as always.

All these issues are now fixed in svn except 3 which worked for me. There's probably more context needed to reproduce the bug, or one of the recent changes fixed it.

[maggotb0y]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

EDIT: Actually now that i think of it having a dropcaps on every paragraph would be pretty weird.

That would be very weird indeed- I'm proposing the first regular paragraph following a chapter break. I will open a ticket.

[Fallen angel]

Thank you, kovidgoyal, the new version works. I just didn't have much time to try out html2lrf, so I would like to ask if it supports unicode ...

[kovidgoyal]

yeah it does. see demo attached to first post. You have to embed a unicode enabled font for the characters to actualy show up.

[kovidgoyal]

version 0.4.9 is on its way to the servers. There was an extensive refactoring of html2lrf's internals to support two new features:
1) --use-spine
Reads the spine information from opf files to determine the order in which individual HTML files should be appended to the LRF
2) --override-css Allows you to specify CSS that will override the CSS loaded through stylesheets and <style> elements in the HTML file. It will not override CSS found in the tags themselves via the style attribute.

Because of the refactoring there may be regressions in this version. If you find any please report them.

[JSWolf]

See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...126#post106126 for what happened when I ran lit2lrf on Autumn.lit.

[lj69]

i try the new version but seem it not support the foreign language , it turn out with all of sign and stuff even when i embedding
html2lrf --serif-family="C:\Windows\Fonts, VNI-Aptima" untitled.html but does not work
can some one help me convert this to lrf and show me how to work with this please,
here is the font :http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YWPI1FL5
and the pdf file:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OD3T7A02
please, thank you

[kovidgoyal]

pdf2lrf --serif-family "C:\Windows\Fonts, Times New Roman" myfile.pdf should work. I doubt the font you mentioned is a proper unicode font. See the attached LRF.

[lj69]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

pdf2lrf --serif-family "C:\Windows\Fonts, Times New Roman" myfile.pdf should work. I doubt the font you mentioned is a proper unicode font. See the attached LRF.

the attached file that you just gave me is unreadable, and the pdf file have font VNI-Aptima in pdf file have is the fist link megaupload have in there, i try install unicode font in my window exactly with the one in pdf file but not working either
but thanks anyway for the great progam,
anyway to fix that