LRF output

[kovidgoyal]

put all files in a zip file

[yagiz]

Thanks for the prompt response.

When i downloaded the Web page with all dependencies (in a way to refer to local files) it all worked. So, it solves my problem.

Just as a feedback: When I put the same files in a ZIP file, I'm getting this error:

Processing rob-blog.zip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert_from.py", line 1922, in <module>
File "convert_from.py", line 1916, in main
File "convert_from.py", line 1808, in process_file
File "convert_from.py", line 266, in __init__
File "convert_from.py", line 371, in add_file
File "calibre\ebooks\chardet\__init__.pyo", line 59, in xml_to_unicode
TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None

Have you ever considered supporting the .mht (Web Archive) format?

Thanks again,

[kovidgoyal]

You have to run the zip file through any2lrf

and calibre contains very sophisticated code to download and convert web content, see feeds2lrf and web2lrf

[yagiz]

Wow! I'm impressed with the efficiency of the news and RSS feeds conversion. It works perfectly with the blog site that I was looking for.

Thanks,

[barron]

Hello,

When using html2lrf with the --chapter-regex option, can I apply the search for a tag set instead of what's between the tags? In other words, if I want anything using <H1></H1> tags to be a chapter can I set this up using the --chapter-regex option?

Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

No chapter-regex only searches the contents of tags. You can force page breaks before tags based on ther tag names and attributes, using the various force-page-break options

[marwick]

Maybe I'm asking a stupid question, but I couldn't find the answer using the search engine.

Here it goes: I have a .doc document. I created a TOC autodetecting its chapters. I saved and from here I created an html file. Everything worked and looked fine. Then I converted the html to lrf with Calibre and the TOC just lost all of its title descriptions. That's what I mean:

I. Chapter one title.................5
II: Chapter two title................32
III. etc.

in the lrf changed to:

LINK.....................5
LINK....................32
LINK..etc

Why am I loosing the chapter names? How could I bring them to the lrf file?

[kovidgoyal]

post the section of the HTML file that contains the TOC

[marwick]

Could it be this part?

<w:Sdt SdtDocPart="t" DocPartType="Table of Contents" DocPartUnique="t"
ID="21517536">
<p class=MsoTocHeading><span lang=ES>Contenido<w:sdtPr></w:sdtPr></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 style='tab-stops:right dotted 481.55pt'><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=ES><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>TOC \o &quot;1-3&quot; \h \z \u <span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang=ES><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc200384664"><span
style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Introducción</span><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'> PAGEREF _Toc200384664 \h </span><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'>5</span><span style='color:windowtext;display:none;
mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000 080000000E0000005F0054006F006300320030003000330038 0034003600360034000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span></span><span
style='mso-ansi-language:CA;mso-fareast-language:CA;mso-no-proof:yes'><o></o></span></p>
<p class=MsoToc1 style='tab-stops:right dotted 481.55pt'><span
class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=ES style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="#_Toc200384665"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>CAPITULO
I</span><span style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'> </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'> PAGEREF _Toc200384665 \h </span><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span
style='color:windowtext;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'>19</span><span style='color:windowtext;display:none;
mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000 080000000E0000005F0054006F006300320030003000330038 0034003600360035000000</w:data>
</xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:windowtext;
display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span
style='mso-ansi-language:CA;mso-fareast-language:CA;mso-no-proof:yes'><o></o></span></p>

etc.

[kovidgoyal]

Try saving as a "clean HTML" file from Word, that will remove all the microsoft junk and give you an easier to understand HTML file and hopefully better conversion results as well.

[zelda_pinwheel]

how do you save as a "clean html" file from word ? i didn't know that was possible, but it would be great if it is... i didn't find the option in the "format" dropdown list in the "save as" dialogue.

[kovidgoyal]

Depends on the version of word you have and unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of word on hand to check, but I'm sure someone will be able to tell you. At a guess look at the "export" options

[zelda_pinwheel]

aaah... i suspected as much. i think my version is probably too old (2000). i'll just have to stick to writing my html code by hand. it's worked so far.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Try saving as a "clean HTML" file from Word, that will remove all the Microsoft junk and give you an easier to understand HTML file and hopefully better conversion results as well.

Would it not be better to save as RTF and use rtf2lrf?

[kovidgoyal]

rtf2lrf is not really as feature rich as html2lrf (it basically converts the RTF to html and then runs html2lrf on it)