Fix out of order book - I must be missing something obvious

[greenskye]

Downloaded a fanfic via fanficfare and due to various reasons the chapters are all out of order.

No problem, I'll just edit the ToC so the chapters are in the right order. Except editing the ToC only seems to apply for navigating the book by the ToC. If, for example, you reach the end of the chapter and hit 'next page' it will take you to the next file from the original order, not the next chapter as defined by the TOC. This is manageable I suppose, but I'd still like to actually fix the order.

All of my files are unhelpfully named 'file0001','file0019', etc. To properly reorder the files, I'd have to manually compare the TOC, see what file it's linked to and then reorder that file to be where its supposed to be.

It seems like this should've been an easy problem to solve, one that doesn't involve tediously figuring out that file0052 is actually chapter 2.

Can I somehow reorder the file order to match the ToC? Or can I at least apply the ToC chapter names to the files so they're easier to reorder myself?

[Karellen]

The file browser in the left window. Are the files in the correct order there? If not, dragging each file to the correct position will fix the order in the opf.

[lomkiri]

Have you checked the book in the editor ? (menu tools / check book, or F7)
Sometime the elements are not linear, i.e. files are not in the order of the reading, but the opf gives the right order. Some devices may not understand this. So "check book" detects this and offers to make all files linear,. If it is this your problem, one click will solve it.

[greenskye]

Originally Posted by Karellen

The file browser in the left window. Are the files in the correct order there? If not, dragging each file to the correct position will fix the order in the opf.

No they are not in the correct order, that was what I was saying. I'm aware I can reorder them, but they are not named sensibly, so doing so is tedious. I will have to look up what each file is supposed to be (file0052 might be chapter 3 and file0053 might be chapter 22 for example). If I could mass rename files to their chapter names, then this would be easier to reorder. Obviously I can spend the ~30-60 minutes reordering this book, but I want to know how to solve it in a less tedious way.

It's kind of crazy to me that you can't a) rename files based on the ToC or b) reorder files to match ToC order.

Originally Posted by lomkiri

Have you checked the book in the editor ? (menu tools / check book, or F7)
Sometime the elements are not linear, i.e. files are not in the order of the reading, but the opf gives the right order. Some devices may not understand this. So "check book" detects this and offers to make all files linear,. If it is this your problem, one click will solve it.

Check book didn't seem to detect the files being out of order. I'm only getting a couple of comments about missing generic font families and that's it.

[BetterRed]

Have a look at the Sigil plugins, there's one called TocSaver that hints a doing something like what you want.

BR