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[kiwidude]

Unfortunately Shelfari has no API so because of that and it has very limited integration with anything else which is a big thumbs down - and Amazon now owning it kills any innovation in that area. People have complained about it for years and that hasn't changed. A plugin would have to do it with web scraping, which is slow and fragile, prone to breaking every time they tweak their website.

Not impossible, but not much fun to write/maintain either.

[theducks]

Kiwidude made a comment "find room on the toolbar for another icon" in the QC PI thread.

How about a toolbar Folder PI for allow Multiple User PI Icons to occupy a single Menu slot (also could work like the Send to device Icon, where you set a default PI to use for a normal click and show the PI (icon) menu for a Right-click)

[faber1971]

People having a Kindle well know what I'm talking about: Amazon has put a % limitation on the possibility of saving a part of the text in "My clippings.txt". Has anybody an idea of how getting a rid of this limitation through a new Calibre plugin or eventually a hack?

[kiwidude]

@faber1971 - a search reveals some answers for this

Edit: I've added a feature to the Quality Check plugin which will allow you to find MOBI books in your library which have the clipping limit specified. You will then either do a calibre conversion or use a third party tool such as mentioned in that thread above to remove the limit.

[theducks]

Neither Sigil or Calibre will clean up unused styles, you know the ones in those bloated Kitchen sink stylesheets, even if it is only 1 stylesheet


I'd love a plugin that would generate a Report(.log) of all the USED styles and a count of the tag usage in a single book. (and make LOG a Calibre External-View file type)

Or better yet, a list of the ones in the stylesheet that never were used.

I can handle the stylesheet edit armed with that.

[kiwidude]

@theducks - yeah I know what you mean - though I think it really needs to be a function/plugin in Sigil to be real time enough to be useful. Giving you a count of how many times a style is used and the ability to jump to those places - that would be nice.

[theducks]

If I know, I can Search for the Name.
I am a little leery of blindly deleting 'not used', there are oh so may legay ways to use them style="styleA styleZ"
and define them
div.styleA
p.styleZ
.styleA

Then there is the Multi define like I find in the old Webscription stylesheet

body {
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0
    }
body {
    margin-left: 5pt;
    margin-right: 5pt
    }
a {
    color: inherit;
    text-decoration: inherit;
    cursor: default
    }
a[href] {
    color: blue;
    text-decoration: underline;
    cursor: pointer
    }
body {
    text-align: justify
    }

Never understood Why

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by theducks

Neither Sigil or Calibre will clean up unused styles, you know the ones in those bloated Kitchen sink stylesheets, even if it is only 1 stylesheet

I think a calibre conversion to epub cleans up unused styles from the css file, ... but perhaps you are trying to avoid doing that.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

I think a calibre conversion to epub cleans up unused styles from the css file, ... but perhaps you are trying to avoid doing that.

Lots of styles left over that I can't find a place used. Calibre only seems to pretty up the stylesheet and ADD Calibre styles without condensing or tuning unnecessary span and div nests

We are speaking of the GI part of GIGO

[meme]

@theducks - sounds like it would be useful to have in Sigil. But the trick as you mention is figuring out all the rules of how styles/classes can be defined and used in order to get an accurate report. Something to add to the wishlist

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by theducks

Lots of styles left over that I can't find a place used. Calibre only seems to pretty up the stylesheet and ADD Calibre styles without condensing or tuning unnecessary span and div nests

I can't argue about the span and div nests but, just for interest, I took a retail epub which used one of those overblown one-css-fits-all stylesheets and did an epub-epub conversion.

Original css: 2624 lines (416 rules)
calibre-converted css: 318 lines (41 rules), all 41 rules were used at least once in the converted epub. 4 of the 41 were new calibre-created rules with the .calibrenn name.

Now, whilst a sample of 1 is not enough to prove anything, surely you'd have to agree that calibre is doing something with style rationalisation

[kovidgoyal]

calibre does rationalize css. Basically all css is applied to the actual HTML, then processed/transformed and then written out. This process automatically discards all rules from the input document that do not apply to anything.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

calibre does rationalize css. Basically all css is applied to the actual HTML, then processed/transformed and then written out. This process automatically discards all rules from the input document that do not apply to anything.

is there some setting that I have made, that stops this (purging) from happening?

[kovidgoyal]

No there is no setting that can prevent rationalization from happening, rationalization is fundamental to the conversion process.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

Neither Sigil or Calibre will clean up unused styles, you know the ones in those bloated Kitchen sink stylesheets, even if it is only 1 stylesheet


I'd love a plugin that would generate a Report(.log) of all the USED styles and a count of the tag usage in a single book. (and make LOG a Calibre External-View file type)

Or better yet, a list of the ones in the stylesheet that never were used.

I can handle the stylesheet edit armed with that.

I agree with this 100%.