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ziplizard · 07-09-2009, 11:31 PM

Regular Expressions help!

All of my eBooks are 'Last Name, First Name - Title' (or 'Last Name, First Name - Series ## - Title').

My current regex is:
(?P<author>((?!\s-\s).)*)\s- (?P<title>.*)

This gives me:
Author = 'Last Name, First Name'
Title = 'Title' or 'Series ## - Title'

Title is what I want. Author is backwards. Is there any way to make <author> be something like <author-sort> or <author-last>,<author-first>. I know nothing of python or regex and everything I've done was with searching around mobileread and guess&check so feel free to talk to talk down to me.

Also, why isn't there a nice list of popular regex on the Calibre site? I would think that would be very FAQ-ish.

kovidgoyal · 07-10-2009, 01:15 AM

I'm afraid there's no way to get the author the way you want. But you can easily adjust the regex to work for files with and without the series, someone with more time than me will hopefully come and help you. As for making a FAQ, if you compile a list of regexs, I'll be happy to add them to the FAQ.

ziplizard · 07-10-2009, 10:06 AM

Thanks for replying.

And I don't want Calibre to remove the series name from the title since I read nearly all of my eBooks on my Kindle and having the series name in the title help keep my series together.

JohnnyBook · 07-25-2009, 05:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ziplizard

Thanks for replying.

And I don't want Calibre to remove the series name from the title since I read nearly all of my eBooks on my Kindle and having the series name in the title help keep my series together.

Yeah that my main problem with Calibre... All my tittles had the Series Info and Vol # in the file name. (Last, First - Series # - Tittle.txt)

But if I want to read the book on another computer (or device) that does not have Calibre installed, Since Clibre has renamed the file, all that data is lost.

ekaser · 07-27-2009, 07:20 PM

Thanks for the great program!! (already made my contribution...)

I'm new to Calibre, so am probably missing something obvious but:

I converted a dozen books from a variety of formats to epub, and they're all getting a 'cover' page showing the title of the book, the date of the conversion, and "Produced by calibre 0.6.1", whether the book has a 'real' cover image or not. If it has a real cover image, then that's "page 2".

I don't mind having the "Produced by calibre" information in the file at some point, but I really don't want it to be the first page that shows when I open the book. Is there some way to change this?

Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 07-27-2009, 07:28 PM

Choose an actual cover and it will replace the default cover

Sydney's Mom · 07-27-2009, 08:14 PM

I can't wait to try the new version - I am getting a new computer and will download it there. Here is my question:

It looks so neat, I would like to put all my books in Calibre. Can I upload them from my kindle?

kovidgoyal · 07-27-2009, 08:16 PM

Not directly. You have to use the save to disk button to save the books from the kindle to your hard disk and them import them from your hard disk to calibre

corroonb · 07-29-2009, 11:23 AM

Is there any way to disable generation of a table of contents when converting with calibre?

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2009, 01:07 PM

what format are you converting to and from?

corroonb · 07-29-2009, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

what format are you converting to and from?

rtf to lrf. I could easily convert the rtf to html but that sometimes leaves large gaps between paragraphs in the lrf.

I know I can remove any table of contents in the document but calibre sometimes gets stuck when it tries to autogenerate a TOC.

This is the code I see in the job detail tab:

Code:

Converting RTF to XML...
Parsing XML...
Converting XML to HTML...
Parsing all content...
Parsing index.xhtml ...
Referenced file 'styles.css' not in manifest
Parsing styles.css ...
Generating default TOC from spine...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Auto generated TOC with 0 entries.

And it keeps converting for ages without any progress.

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2009, 01:56 PM

That means the TOC generation has completed. So that's not where it stops. open a ticket and attach one of these rtf files

corroonb · 07-29-2009, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That means the TOC generation has completed. So that's not where it stops. open a ticket and attach one of these rtf files

Done. There appears to be some problems converting some rtf files to lrf.

Kostas · 07-29-2009, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corroonb

rtf to lrf. I could easily convert the rtf to html but that sometimes leaves large gaps between paragraphs in the lrf.

I got the same problem.
Disappeared when asking MS Word to save rtf as "html, filtered".

corroonb · 07-29-2009, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kostas

I got the same problem.
Disappeared when asking MS Word to save rtf as "html, filtered".

I'll try that. I tried renaming the file to txt but the formatting is destroyed.

07-27-2009, 07:20 PM	#140
ekaser Opinion Artiste Posts: 301 Karma: 61464 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Albany, OR Device: Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire	"Produced by calibre" title page Thanks for the great program!! (already made my contribution...) I'm new to Calibre, so am probably missing something obvious but: I converted a dozen books from a variety of formats to epub, and they're all getting a 'cover' page showing the title of the book, the date of the conversion, and "Produced by calibre 0.6.1", whether the book has a 'real' cover image or not. If it has a real cover image, then that's "page 2". I don't mind having the "Produced by calibre" information in the file at some point, but I really don't want it to be the first page that shows when I open the book. Is there some way to change this? Thanks!

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07-09-2009, 11:31 PM	#136
ziplizard Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 142 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kindle 2.0	Regular Expressions help! All of my eBooks are 'Last Name, First Name - Title' (or 'Last Name, First Name - Series ## - Title'). My current regex is: (?P<author>((?!\s-\s).))\s- (?P<title>.) This gives me: Author = 'Last Name, First Name' Title = 'Title' or 'Series ## - Title' Title is what I want. Author is backwards. Is there any way to make <author> be something like <author-sort> or <author-last>,<author-first>. I know nothing of python or regex and everything I've done was with searching around mobileread and guess&check so feel free to talk to talk down to me. Also, why isn't there a nice list of popular regex on the Calibre site? I would think that would be very FAQ-ish.

07-10-2009, 01:15 AM	#137
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm afraid there's no way to get the author the way you want. But you can easily adjust the regex to work for files with and without the series, someone with more time than me will hopefully come and help you. As for making a FAQ, if you compile a list of regexs, I'll be happy to add them to the FAQ.

07-10-2009, 10:06 AM	#138
ziplizard Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 142 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kindle 2.0	Thanks for replying. And I don't want Calibre to remove the series name from the title since I read nearly all of my eBooks on my Kindle and having the series name in the title help keep my series together.

07-27-2009, 07:28 PM	#141
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Choose an actual cover and it will replace the default cover

07-27-2009, 08:14 PM	#142
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,899 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	I can't wait to try the new version - I am getting a new computer and will download it there. Here is my question: It looks so neat, I would like to put all my books in Calibre. Can I upload them from my kindle?

07-27-2009, 08:16 PM	#143
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not directly. You have to use the save to disk button to save the books from the kindle to your hard disk and them import them from your hard disk to calibre

07-29-2009, 11:23 AM	#144
corroonb Addict Posts: 317 Karma: 1232685 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ireland Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Aura, Nexus 9	Is there any way to disable generation of a table of contents when converting with calibre?

07-29-2009, 01:07 PM	#145
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	what format are you converting to and from?

07-29-2009, 01:56 PM	#147
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That means the TOC generation has completed. So that's not where it stops. open a ticket and attach one of these rtf files