How to make Sigil live (in calibre) - Page 10

mrmikel · 12-02-2013, 08:14 AM

I gave it a quick spin this morning, Kovid. Works great, save as function works fine, fast enough for me. Tested out editor font, also works, too, though first time I tried it, it didn't seem to take, but the second and third times it was fine. I think I am trying with similar fonts so can't see difference. Switched to sans serif and change is clear.

Did a regex search and replace and that worked fine too.

Only request I would have because of way I work is to be able to get to it without opening a file in the calibre library or putting the book into the library. I have never used the library myself. But if that doesn't work for you it is no bigee for me. I have figured out how to get the books into or out of the library.

Thank you very much for coming up with so rapidly and doing it so well. At this stage of Sigil development it was so slow as to be almost unusable. I am sure it will be of great benefit to the calibre user who can stay in a familiar environment when they just need to change a thing or two in their book.

It is now positioned to handle the inevitable, but not necessarily desirable, transition to epub3 or whatever other format comes down the pike.

Excellent!

mrmikel · 12-02-2013, 08:16 AM

I opened my test book by right clicking on a listing in the calibre library.

kovidgoyal · 12-02-2013, 08:25 AM

@mrmikel: It comes as a standalone executable as well called ebook-tweak.exe should be available in the same place as calibre.exe

@Griker: If you are running from source, you need to add in an extra step to make it available. Go to Preferences->Tweaks->Plugin Tweaks and add

test_tweak_book = True

then restart calibre.

mrmikel · 12-02-2013, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@mrmikel: It comes as a standalone executable as well called ebook-tweak.exe should be available in the same place as calibre.exe

Great! Will set it up that way.

...later. Just tested. No problems.

Perkin · 12-02-2013, 09:32 AM

Hi Kovid,
I'm trying the updated beta
Edit: OS X Mavericks.

I've noticed I got a lot of warnings in the terminal...

Code:

2013-12-02 13:14:30.913 calibre-debug[756:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Liberation Serif" and got font with PostScript name "LiberationSerif". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.

There's lots of them, for Serif and Mono, I then used the Preferences and set 'Courier New' font, when next run I still get a lot of warnings for Liberation and a few for Courier.

Doesn't actually affect the epub editing though.

A couple of other things...

I know it's probably difficult, but... if there are any embedded fonts, could they get 'picked up' for correct displaying in the preview pane.
N.B. Found that if I click the 'Embed referenced fonts' in toolbar (window/dialog says 'No embeddable fonts found'), then close the file's tab and re-open it - they get displayed correctly - so it may just be me doing something incorrectly.

When double-clicking on an image in the browser pane, instead of displaying the 'not-editable' warning, could you show a preview window with the image.
Would allow easier checking of images to get the correct filename for insertion in html.

kovidgoyal · 12-02-2013, 10:00 AM

@Perkin: Those warnings are harmless and are caused by an incompatibility of Qt with Mavericks, just ignore them.

Embedded fonts should work automatically, with one exception - if the font family name in the actual font and the font family name in the @font-face rule dont match -- in that case they will not work.

Also because of a bug in Qt the embedded fonts may not show up the very first time a page is displayed, just click the refresh button under the preview panel (or make any changes to the file) and they should show up.

There will eventually be an image editor where you can view, crop, rotate etc images.

theducks · 12-02-2013, 10:16 AM

I just tried a Rename (W64 bit)
Can we make it rename just the filename part by default (as in current Sigil)?

BTW It works beautiful on a Dual Head rig. I have the preview pane on my 'upper' 1024x768 monitor

theducks · 12-02-2013, 10:20 AM

1.13beta W64
I clicked the calibre_bookmarks entry under Miscellaneous

Code:

typerror:must be unicode, not str

kovidgoyal · 12-02-2013, 10:26 AM

@theducks: Yeah, currently editing for .txt files is not working, because there is no way to figure out what encoding they need, and the editor only works with utf-8. I will probably add in some encoding auto-detection logic for .txt files, but generally speaking, avoid editing calibre_bookmarks.txt, it is not meant to be edited by humans.

I want renaming to work for files and directories. Tweak Book, unlike Sigil, does not force you to use a particular directory structure and lets you move files around into different directories.

Perkin · 12-02-2013, 10:53 AM

I'm using OS X Mavericks

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Perkin: Those warnings are harmless and are caused by an incompatibility of Qt with Mavericks, just ignore them.

Thought they could be, just thought you'd like to be informed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Embedded fonts should work automatically, with one exception - if the font family name in the actual font and the font family name in the @font-face rule dont match -- in that case they will not work.

Also because of a bug in Qt the embedded fonts may not show up the very first time a page is displayed, just click the refresh button under the preview panel (or make any changes to the file) and they should show up.

The test file does show correctly in calibre's viewer and on actual readers.
In the test file I'm using I have CSS of

Code:

@font-face {font-style:italic; font-weight:normal; font-family:"ReverseI"; src:url("../Fonts/CharisSILI.ttf");}
.reversei {font-family:"ReverseI",serif; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; text-indent:0;line-height:1.2em;}

and html is

Code:

  <p class="reversei">One light / ɥʇɐǝp<br />
   Two lights / ʎǝʞ ǝuo<br />
   Three lights / sɥʇnɹʇ oʍʇ<br />
   Four lights / sʇǝɹɔǝs ǝǝɹɥʇ</p>

The font filename is correct, just doesn't display correctly, even when refreshing, unless I press the 'Embed referenced fonts' and then refresh

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There will eventually be an image editor where you can view, crop, rotate etc images.

Nice.

I was going to change the font-family name in the css [as above] (to 'Charis'), and I noticed that I can't actually edit anything with the keyboard - HTML or CSS
I can select text and drag it around or copy/paste, just can't use keyboard and alter/add anything.

GRiker · 12-02-2013, 10:57 AM

OS X, latest build:
I'm unable to rename files in the Files Browser panel. I right-click, select 'Rename…', the text becomes highlighted. When I type nothing is replaced and I hear an OS X error sound.

G

kovidgoyal · 12-02-2013, 10:57 AM

@Perkin: Embedded fonts work for me, I'll need a test file to reproduce the issue with.

kovidgoyal · 12-02-2013, 11:03 AM

@Griker: OS X is weird

I haven't a clue what could be causing that. I'll look into it if I can get my daughter away from my OS X machine (which drives the TV)

Perkin · 12-02-2013, 11:11 AM

I can't rename files like GRiker either. (Also on OS X)

Including a cut-down epub with embedded font that doesn't show correctly unless I do the 'Embed referenced fonts' - refresh.

kovidgoyal · 12-02-2013, 11:19 AM

@Perkin: Change the font family name to Charis SIL in the css file and it should work, as I said the font name used in the css has to match the actual name in the font file, otherwise it will not work.

Of course, until that keyboard issue on OS X is sorted out, you will need to make the change with some other program

12-02-2013, 09:32 AM	#140
Perkin Guru Posts: 657 Karma: 64171 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Kent, England, Sol 3, ZZ9 plural Z Alpha Device: Sony PRS-300, Kobo Aura HD, iPad (Marvin)	Hi Kovid, I'm trying the updated beta Edit: OS X Mavericks. I've noticed I got a lot of warnings in the terminal... Code: 2013-12-02 13:14:30.913 calibre-debug[756:507] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Liberation Serif" and got font with PostScript name "LiberationSerif". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API. There's lots of them, for Serif and Mono, I then used the Preferences and set 'Courier New' font, when next run I still get a lot of warnings for Liberation and a few for Courier. Doesn't actually affect the epub editing though. A couple of other things... I know it's probably difficult, but... if there are any embedded fonts, could they get 'picked up' for correct displaying in the preview pane. N.B. Found that if I click the 'Embed referenced fonts' in toolbar (window/dialog says 'No embeddable fonts found'), then close the file's tab and re-open it - they get displayed correctly - so it may just be me doing something incorrectly. When double-clicking on an image in the browser pane, instead of displaying the 'not-editable' warning, could you show a preview window with the image. Would allow easier checking of images to get the correct filename for insertion in html.

12-02-2013, 10:20 AM	#143
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,249 Karma: 61360164 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	1.13beta W64 I clicked the calibre_bookmarks entry under Miscellaneous Code: typerror:must be unicode, not str

12-02-2013, 10:57 AM	#147
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Perkin: Embedded fonts work for me, I'll need a test file to reproduce the issue with. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 12-02-2013 at 11:02 AM.

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12-02-2013, 08:14 AM	#136
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	I gave it a quick spin this morning, Kovid. Works great, save as function works fine, fast enough for me. Tested out editor font, also works, too, though first time I tried it, it didn't seem to take, but the second and third times it was fine. I think I am trying with similar fonts so can't see difference. Switched to sans serif and change is clear. Did a regex search and replace and that worked fine too. Only request I would have because of way I work is to be able to get to it without opening a file in the calibre library or putting the book into the library. I have never used the library myself. But if that doesn't work for you it is no bigee for me. I have figured out how to get the books into or out of the library. Thank you very much for coming up with so rapidly and doing it so well. At this stage of Sigil development it was so slow as to be almost unusable. I am sure it will be of great benefit to the calibre user who can stay in a familiar environment when they just need to change a thing or two in their book. It is now positioned to handle the inevitable, but not necessarily desirable, transition to epub3 or whatever other format comes down the pike. Excellent!

12-02-2013, 08:16 AM	#137
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	I opened my test book by right clicking on a listing in the calibre library.

12-02-2013, 08:25 AM	#138
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@mrmikel: It comes as a standalone executable as well called ebook-tweak.exe should be available in the same place as calibre.exe @Griker: If you are running from source, you need to add in an extra step to make it available. Go to Preferences->Tweaks->Plugin Tweaks and add test_tweak_book = True then restart calibre.

12-02-2013, 10:00 AM	#141
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Perkin: Those warnings are harmless and are caused by an incompatibility of Qt with Mavericks, just ignore them. Embedded fonts should work automatically, with one exception - if the font family name in the actual font and the font family name in the @font-face rule dont match -- in that case they will not work. Also because of a bug in Qt the embedded fonts may not show up the very first time a page is displayed, just click the refresh button under the preview panel (or make any changes to the file) and they should show up. There will eventually be an image editor where you can view, crop, rotate etc images.

12-02-2013, 10:16 AM	#142
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,249 Karma: 61360164 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I just tried a Rename (W64 bit) Can we make it rename just the filename part by default (as in current Sigil)? BTW It works beautiful on a Dual Head rig. I have the preview pane on my 'upper' 1024x768 monitor

12-02-2013, 10:26 AM	#144
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@theducks: Yeah, currently editing for .txt files is not working, because there is no way to figure out what encoding they need, and the editor only works with utf-8. I will probably add in some encoding auto-detection logic for .txt files, but generally speaking, avoid editing calibre_bookmarks.txt, it is not meant to be edited by humans. I want renaming to work for files and directories. Tweak Book, unlike Sigil, does not force you to use a particular directory structure and lets you move files around into different directories.

12-02-2013, 10:57 AM	#146
GRiker Comparer of the Ephemeris Posts: 1,496 Karma: 424697 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad	OS X, latest build: I'm unable to rename files in the Files Browser panel. I right-click, select 'Rename…', the text becomes highlighted. When I type nothing is replaced and I hear an OS X error sound. G

12-02-2013, 11:03 AM	#148
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Griker: OS X is weird I haven't a clue what could be causing that. I'll look into it if I can get my daughter away from my OS X machine (which drives the TV)

12-02-2013, 11:19 AM	#150
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Perkin: Change the font family name to Charis SIL in the css file and it should work, as I said the font name used in the css has to match the actual name in the font file, otherwise it will not work. Of course, until that keyboard issue on OS X is sorted out, you will need to make the change with some other program