Plugin for tidying ePub files

[CalibUser]

@thosp: Thank you for letting me know about this bug. This has been fixed and the updated plugin has been put in the first post of this thread.

[thosp]

Greetings,

I ran the plugin against a file containing, "Texta / Textb"

and it changed it to, "Texta I Textb".

That is incorrect, isn't it?

[CalibUser]

Originally Posted by thosp

I ran the plugin against a file containing, "Texta / Textb"

and it changed it to, "Texta I Textb".

That is incorrect, isn't it?

@thosp: The plugin is not perfect and a number of assumptions were made for changing text/symbols that may seem to be incorrect.

The plugin assumes that a "/" separated by two spaces should be the letter "I" as this was one of the frequent errors in ePub files that were converted from pdf files. It will not change a "/" if it is not surrounded by spaces.

So although the plugin is amending "Texta / Textb" incorrectly, it is making the change that it was programmed to do. If I amend the code to ignore " / " then it will not detect any " / "s that should be an "I".

It is not possible to amend the plugin so that it can work out whether a " / " should be changed to "I" or not. On balance, I will leave the plugin to change " / " to "I" as "I" in the pdf is commonly converted to "/" in the ePub.

[KevinH]

One idea is to do what Doitsu does in many of his plugins which is to use the plugins Prefs to store user-editable preferences so that the user can enable that change or not.

[CalibUser]

Originally Posted by KevinH

...use the plugins Prefs to store user-editable preferences so that the user can enable that change or not.

Thanks for the suggestion. However, for some changes this would be long-winded to implement. In the worse case situation I would have to split up the following code to allow each term to be selected/rejected:

	if cDetermineQuotes.OpenQ == "‘":
		CorrectText("Corrected apostrophes in wrong direction", r'[ ]?‘(ad|ave|bout|eard|em|er|cause|cept|im|is|old|ome|ow|specially|Taint|til|tis|twas)(\W?)', r' ’\1\2')
	else:
		CorrectText("Corrected apostrophes in wrong direction", r'[ ]?‘(?i)(\d\d|ad[n]{0,1}|app[yines]{0,5}|appen[eds]{0,2}|ard[er]{0,2}|arf|alf|ang|as|at|av[ein]{0,3}|bout|bye|cause|cept[ing]{0,3}|copter[s]{0,1}|cos|cross|cuz|couse|e[emr]{0,1}|ell|elp[edling]{0,5}|ere[abouts]{0,5}|eard|f|fraid|fore|id|igh[er]{0,2}|ighness|im|is|isself|gainst|kay|less|mongst| n|nd|neath|nough|nother|nuff|o[o]{0,1}|ood|ome|ow|op[eding]{0,3}|oney|orse[flesh]{0,5}|ouse[ds]{0,1}|pon|puter[edrs]{0,2}|round|scuse[ds]{0,1}|spect[sed]{0,2}|scaped|sides|tween|special[ly]{0,2}|stead|t|taint|til|tis|twas|twere|twould|twil l|ud|un|urt|vise)(\W?)', r' ’\1\2')

However, if enough users want this feature then I will consider it.

[democrite]

I understand such would require a fair amount of work. As I believe I suggested something like such before, someday yes, yes I say yes.

[thosp]

I ran the plugin, and got the following and am buffaloed. I have previously used this plugin with very few problems. Now I've deleted, got new one fresh from here, installed - TWICE - and no help. Any ideas, please!

Status: failed

Python Laucher Version: 20220101
Checking for updates...
Published version 3.0.1.4
Installed version 3.0.1.4
You have the latest version of this plugin
You have the latest version of this plugin
Will check for updates/remind update is available at: 2022-02-25 15:59:40.670795
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Sigil\plugin_launchers\python\launcher.py", line 142, in launch
self.exitcode = target_script.run(container)
File "C:\Users\thosp\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\sigil\plugins\ePubTidyTool\plugin.py", line 375, in run
ShowMainWindow(root, bk, prefs) #show the main window
File "C:\Users\thosp\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\sigil\plugins\ePubTidyTool\plugin.py", line 230, in ShowMainWindow
mainframe = ttk.Frame(root, padding="15 15 12 12")
NameError: name 'ttk' is not defined
Error: name 'ttk' is not defined

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by thosp

I ran the plugin, and got the following and am buffaloed. I have previously used this plugin with very few problems. Now I've deleted, got new one fresh from here, installed - TWICE - and no help. Any ideas, please!

There's a bug in the plugin, which you can easily fix yourself.
Select Edit > Open Preferences Location > plugins > ePubTidyTool.
Open plugin.py with a text editor and change line 12 from:

import tkinter.ttk as tkinter_ttk	#Essential for ttk. commands

to:

import tkinter.ttk as ttk	#Essential for ttk. commands

[CalibUser]

Thanks, Doitsu.

I have updated the first post in this thread with your correction.

[Thasaidon]

Hi

I am having problems with the plugin and would appreciate any heelp.

I have used the plugin for years as I find it very useful although I could never get the resize image funtion to work. This was not an issue as I used other ways to do this.

Just recently I had my PC in for repairs and when I got it back had to reinstall Sigil, Calibre and the plugins I use for both.

Since then I cannot get the "process spans" feature in epubtidy to work. I have deleted the plugin and its preferences several times but get the same result,

A box that contains the following text appears

Python Laucher Version: 20220310
Will check for updates/remind update is available at: 2022-04-18 12:27:16.739346

folowed by the appearance of a small blank box labelled Epubtidy which has a feather icon in the top left corner.

I have left these boxes on screen for over 30 minutes and nothing appears to happen.

I liked the process spans feature and would like to get it working again.

Thanks

the a

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

I am having problems with the plugin and would appreciate any help.

There's a bug in the plugin, which you can easily fix yourself. Select Edit > Open Preferences Location > plugins > ePubTidyTool.
Open SpanTagProcessor.py with a text editor and change line 9 from:

import tkinter.ttk as tkinter_ttk	#Essential for ttk. commands

to:

import tkinter.ttk as ttk	#Essential for ttk. commands

If you encounter other problems, replace the same line in all other .py files in that folder.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

import tkinter.ttk as tkinter_ttk	#Essential for ttk. commands

to:

import tkinter.ttk as ttk	#Essential for ttk. commands

If you encounter other problems, replace the same line in all other .py files in that folder.

That cured it Doitsu. Thank you very much.

I must have done this in the past but had forgotten all about doing it.

I looked through the other py files abd spotted why the Resize Image function never worked. Apparently it needs the Pillow graphics library to be installed. Something I had not noticed before.

[CalibUser]

Thanks for pointing out this bug and how it should be corrected.

I have updated the plugin in the first post of this thread so that

import tkinter.ttk as tkinter_ttk

is replaced by

import tkinter.ttk as ttk

in all relevant files in the plugin.

[dearleuk]

Hello

I've updated Sigil to 2.3.1 from a really old version 0.9 or something and now I can't get the epubtidy plugin to work.

There are no error messages, when the plugin is launched it starts up as normal, but when I select the file/ files and press Process Text, nothing happens.

I've got bundled Python selected.

Anyone got any ideas please?

Or is there another plugin that does a similar job?

[Turtle91]

Just a thought, and not sure if it’s required, do you have the files selected/highlighted that you want it to process?