Why so complicated?

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by foosion

BTW, if I wanted to eliminate all <section epub:type="bodymatter chapter"> or the like, how would I set the plugin? I could use regex to add a, for example, id tag, then match the id with the plugin, but that would seem to defeat the purpose.

There'd be no need to add an id tag to then match with the plugin. What would be the point of that? You could just match the attribute string of the section tag with the plugin (one attribute and literal value pair, or some regex subset of the attribute value).

You may need to first add "epub:type" as one of the attributes to search on in the plugin's config. But that's a permanent change, not a one-time thing.

[foosion]

Aha. I hadn't looked at the customization carefully enough to realize you can add a type. I'm using the Calibre editor plugin BTW.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by foosion

Aha. I didn't realize you could add attributes in the config. The reason for adding id was that it was already on the list.

Gotcha. Yes, you can add custom attributes... as well as adding more tag choices to change things to. You can even add some new tags to search for, but you'll have to edit the preferences manually to do that. My original goal was only including nestable stuff, because unnestable stuff was fairly easy to change with regex alone, but people kept wanting more tags added.

[DiapDealer]

I don't use the calibre version much, so I forget the particulars, but the functionality should be the same between that and Sigil. If you need to add a tag, that's a little more of a manual process. Perhaps one of the calibre users can walk you through it. I'd have to install calibre to remember the details.

[foosion]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I don't use the calibre version much, so I forget the particulars, but the functionality should be the same between that and Sigil. If you need to add a tag, that's a little more of a manual process. Perhaps one of the calibre users can walk you through it. I'd have to install calibre to remember the details.

I figured it out. Click customize, then at the bottom add to the list of html attributes to search for.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I don't use the calibre version much, so I forget the particulars, but the functionality should be the same between that and Sigil. If you need to add a tag, that's a little more of a manual process. Perhaps one of the calibre users can walk you through it. I'd have to install calibre to remember the details.

As far as I know, to add a tag requires to edit a plugin as they are declared as a list in the code. I don't remember if you have to touch in a couple of places. Perhaps there is an easier way, but I've used this.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What tags have you added in? I know I could use some more tags.

h4 and h5.

[foosion]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I don't use the calibre version much, so I forget the particulars, but the functionality should be the same between that and Sigil. If you need to add a tag, that's a little more of a manual process. Perhaps one of the calibre users can walk you through it. I'd have to install calibre to remember the details.

Originally Posted by foosion

I figured it out. Click customize, then at the bottom add to the list of html attributes to search for.

Oops - that's to add an attribute, but not to add a tag. To make it easy to add a tag the plugin would have to be modified to have a line similar to the add attribute feature. Otherwise, as Terisa writes, edit the plugin itself.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

As far as I know, to add a tag requires to edit a plugin as they are declared as a list in the code. I don't remember if you have to touch in a couple of places. Perhaps there is an easier way, but I've used this.

Hmmm... I know I made it so you could merely edit the plugin preferences in Sigil (rather than have to edit the plugin code itself). I usually try to keep the calibre and Sigil plugins in feature sync, but perhaps I missed one. I'll check it out. Having to edit the code means needing to reapply custom changes after updating the plugin. That seems a bit of a pain.

[Terisa de morgan]

I think I haven't had to change anything in the settings but I'm not sure. In any case, that change would be appreciated (and I've checked and I've not found the way to do it in the settings).

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

h4 and h5.

I would like to have an h2 tag. I would like to change <h2 class="someclasidon'twant">Chapter Title</h2> to <h2>Chapter Title</h2>.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I would like to have an h2 tag. I would like to change <h2 class="someclasidon'twant">Chapter Title</h2> to <h2>Chapter Title</h2>.

Ah, then I added h2 and h3 too. I though they were in the original set.

[foosion]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I would like to have an h2 tag. I would like to change <h2 class="someclasidon'twant">Chapter Title</h2> to <h2>Chapter Title</h2>.

Why not just regex for that?

Find <h2 class="someclasidon'twant">(.*?)</h2>

Replace <h2>\1</h2>

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by foosion

Why not just regex for that?

Find <h2 class="someclasidon'twant">(.*?)</h2>

Replace <h2>\1</h2>

Because I prefer to use the plugin.

[Turtle91]

That’s what I do most of the time (regex)… BUT … you need to be very careful of nested tags especially if you are searching for <span>s because that regex will pickup the first end tag not necessarily the correct one.

As Diap mentioned, his plugin actually parses the html to avoid that issue.