Plugin to ignore tags when searching?

Vanguard3000 · 06-06-2018, 08:22 PM

I'm wondering if anyone has made a modification to Sigil that allows a user to specify when doing a find/replace to ignore html/css tags and header information.

As an example, I recently had a book that often — and inconsistently-used a simple minus sign to separate a sentence instead of an em- or en-dash (as seen in my cleverly-hidden example earlier in this sentence). But the search was rather obnoxious as searching for the minus sign gave me a lot of false positives inside style tags (e.g. <p class="italic-and-bold">). Given that the minus sign was also frequently-used as in my use of the phrase "frequently-used", I had enough false positives to sift through as it was!

I've found a few examples of regexes that can be used to ignore these tags, such as Timur's examples here, but I'm a pretty lazy guy and was wondering if there were an easier way in the form of a Sigil plugin.

Ideally, what I'm imagining is an additional dropdown menu in the search/replace panel's "Mode" section, that would have the options to "Ignore Tags", "Only Search in Tags", and "Search Everywhere".

Does anything like this exist? Thanks for the help.

kovidgoyal · 06-06-2018, 08:45 PM

It exists in the calibre editor https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edi...ring-html-tags

@mods Apologies if this is out of line in the Sigil forum, if so, please feel free to delete, but I figured that it might be helpful to the OP.

KevinH · 06-06-2018, 08:55 PM

I normally use regular expressions to restrict matches to being outside tags. This is relatively straight forward and will greatly diminish your false positives. I believe this was already discussed in the Sigil Regular Expression thread. Simple text search in BookView works as well although I hate to push BookView to anyone.

BetterRed · 06-06-2018, 09:16 PM

I use the spellchecker for this particular case, Show all words, Filter for -. It's available in Sigil and calibre editor spellcheckers, and in the calibre editor's Tools->Reports->Words tool.

BR

DiapDealer · 06-06-2018, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

It exists in the calibre editor https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edi...ring-html-tags

@mods Apologies if this is out of line in the Sigil forum, if so, please feel free to delete, but I figured that it might be helpful to the OP.

No problem. I personally don't mind anyone pointing out the (dis)advantages of either editor for the benefit those asking the questions.

We've had a couple people in the past who liked to camp out and point out calibre equivalents for every single feature/assistance request that newcomers brought up in the Sigil forum. I freely admit that THAT tended to get on my nerves after a while.

But you're welcome to comment here any time, Kovid.

kovidgoyal · 06-07-2018, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

But you're welcome to comment here any time, Kovid.

Cool, glad I didn't step on any toes

06-06-2018, 08:22 PM	#1
Vanguard3000 Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 474196 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra 2	Plugin to ignore tags when searching? I'm wondering if anyone has made a modification to Sigil that allows a user to specify when doing a find/replace to ignore html/css tags and header information. As an example, I recently had a book that often — and inconsistently-used a simple minus sign to separate a sentence instead of an em- or en-dash (as seen in my cleverly-hidden example earlier in this sentence). But the search was rather obnoxious as searching for the minus sign gave me a lot of false positives inside style tags (e.g. <p class="italic-and-bold">). Given that the minus sign was also frequently-used as in my use of the phrase "frequently-used", I had enough false positives to sift through as it was! I've found a few examples of regexes that can be used to ignore these tags, such as Timur's examples here, but I'm a pretty lazy guy and was wondering if there were an easier way in the form of a Sigil plugin. Ideally, what I'm imagining is an additional dropdown menu in the search/replace panel's "Mode" section, that would have the options to "Ignore Tags", "Only Search in Tags", and "Search Everywhere". Does anything like this exist? Thanks for the help.

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06-06-2018, 08:45 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,347 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It exists in the calibre editor https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edi...ring-html-tags @mods Apologies if this is out of line in the Sigil forum, if so, please feel free to delete, but I figured that it might be helpful to the OP.

06-06-2018, 08:55 PM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,761 Karma: 5706256 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	I normally use regular expressions to restrict matches to being outside tags. This is relatively straight forward and will greatly diminish your false positives. I believe this was already discussed in the Sigil Regular Expression thread. Simple text search in BookView works as well although I hate to push BookView to anyone.

06-06-2018, 09:16 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,724 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I use the spellchecker for this particular case, Show all words, Filter for -. It's available in Sigil and calibre editor spellcheckers, and in the calibre editor's Tools->Reports->Words tool. BR