[Plugin] TagMechanic

[KevinH]

Any reason Gear Lever is officially tied to flatpak? Seems to kind of defeat the whole purpose for using AppImages.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by recook

Now i see your UI and realize i have not yet understood how to use it...
If you already explained that somewhere, would you be so kind as to point me there?
Thanks.

Instructions? Now that's asking a lot!

Mainly make sure that you have all the files that you want to parse highlighted in Sigil's Book Browser before launching the plugin. It only runs on those that are preselected. The rest I've just honestly not never been asked for an explanation for.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Any reason Gear Lever is officially tied to flatpak? Seems to kind of defeat the whole purpose for using AppImages.

It looks like a lot of forward-facing language is being changed to note that Gear Lever is primarily for AppImage "installation" now. It just seems odd that the official download for an AppImage Installation Manager is a Flatpak from Flathub.

The Arch AUR version of Gear Lever doesn't seem to require any of the usual Flatpak bloat to build/install it, though, so maybe I'll take a peek. There's at least one dependency that's only available via the AUR, though. That's a strike against it. I generally try to stay away from the AUR unless it's something I really, really want/need. But an AUR package that has other AUR dependencies is bit farther down the rabbit hole than I like to go.

[Leonatus]

I'm grateful for this marvelous tool and would like to suggest a tiny improvement: When exporting as epub from LibreOffice, annotations formatted as superscripts in LO appear as spans with the attribute

font-size:58%;vertical-align:super

.
I would like to change those to simple <sup> tags, if possible with the class: "noteanchor", for easier catching of footnotes. But in the "Change tag" menu there are only few possibilities listed. Is it possible to add one in the way I mentioned?

[DiapDealer]

I'm pretty sure the latest version allows you to easily add the sup tag to the list of valid changes for span tags (and vertical-align to the valid attributes list), in the config dialog, but let me double-check to be sure. Or you may have to use regex if your "vertical-align:super" is actually a part of a style= attribute value.

Either way, creating a new class would be totally up to the replace parameters set for your run.

[DiapDealer]

Yes. The config dialog in the latest release of TagMechanic lets you add 'sup' to the list of tags available to change a span tag to. Config is a menu item (top left of the dialog).

Your vertical-align:super is probably part of a 'style' attribute value (it wouldn't really be valid xhtml any other way).

So after you add sup to your span config change_to list, you would:

choose 'Modify';
select the 'span' Tag;
Having the attribute 'style';
Whose value is (.*?)vertical-align:super (check the Regex box);
Change tag to 'sup';
and put class="noteref" in the New attribute string textbox.

And no: changing to tags with predefined attributes is not in the cards for this plugin. It's not really necessary given that you can already define the entire attribute string of the tag you're changing to.

[Leonatus]

I have version 0.6.3 which seems to be the latest, but in the "Change tag to" menu, there is no entry for a sup option. But with the regex box checked, as you say, it may work. I'll try that tomorrow. thank you so far!

Edit: I had a look on it, but "Change tag to 'sup'" is not possible, as there is no option in the dropdown menu.

[DiapDealer]

You're not opening the 'Config' dialog. Top left of the gui, there's a menu item titled 'Config'. You need to select that to open the dialog that allows you to customize the tags you can change other tags to.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

The config dialog in the latest release of TagMechanic lets you add 'sup' to the list of tags available to change a span tag to. Config is a menu item (top left of the dialog).

[Leonatus]

Ah, it seems I'm already too tired today! Sorry!

[DiapDealer]

No problem!