Adding existing files problem

[meme]

Originally Posted by theducks

Yikes!
Alpha-Sorting the Book Browser list would make a hash out of most of my books.
FM comes before CH, EP comes before BM ..., jacket, TP...
Not all sections are 'chapters'

Sort selected (only) would be useful if using Alpha-Numeric sort compatible naming as WS64 showed

Sure, get offered one thing and ask for more

But if you are dealing with 'hundreds' of files, then sorting them all automatically and then having to move the few remaining non chapter files isn't so bad.

Multiple selection in the book browser is something I've seen mentioned before. I'd have to look into that more to see if its possible (or if user_none would be ok if it were added). The issue of sorting alphanumerically was actually straightforward and just has to be tested more and cleaned up.

[congngo]

I don't think sort the book browser is a good idea like Meme said. A lot of books do not follow alphabetical order like below.

main.xhtml
chapter1.xhtml
chapter2.xhtml
index.xhtml
a.xhtml
b.xhtml
and so on...

sorting would cause a huge problem for this order. Maybe allow
the ability to select more than one file (group of files) in book browser for sorting, moving etc... would be good.

[meme]

Actually, I said that sorting even without multiple selections is good. Admittedly it isn't as useful as sorting by selection, but its a start. Obviously automatic sorting isn't going to solve every case - the thought is that it might help out in some cases, and since its entirely optional to use it doesn't hurt anything.

I've uploaded a patch to allow sorting all html files by right clicking on the html section and selecting sort. Still have to look into supporting multiple selection.

I've also uploaded a patch that inserts the new blank html section to just after the file selected in the book browser, so you don't have to scroll around to find it. Still need to look into doing the same for adding existing files.

I wouldn't expect them to be in 0.5 though.

[DaleDe]

The intuitive solution is when you right click on a file to add an additional file then it appears just below the file you right clicked on. I think this is the right answer instead of trying to fix it later.

[meme]

Patches updated to include
- Support sorting entries alphabetically
- Allow multiple selection of entries for remove, move, merge, sorting alphabetically
- Add new blank files and Add existing files after the currently selected entry instead of at the end

For a release after .5 when user_none gets time to review and test them.

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by meme

Patches updated to include
- Support sorting entries alphabetically
- Allow multiple selection of entries for remove, move, merge, sorting alphabetically
- Add new blank files and Add existing files after the currently selected entry instead of at the end

For a release after .5 when user_none gets time to review and test them.

If you could select multiple files and rename them with sequential numbers, this feature would be complete.

Regards and thanks - John

[meme]

Originally Posted by Jabby

If you could select multiple files and rename them with sequential numbers, this feature would be complete.

In what situations would this be useful? I left rename out (Add Semantics is in, though not as useful) as I didn't see a push for it, so its interesting that that's the first thing mentioned out of everything

Any examples of how you see this working? Numbers at front, at end, in the middle, what text to use if any, what to do with existing names/numbers?

I suppose you might mean you want to rename each file as say Section0001, Section0002, ... deleting whatever name was there before, and possibly appending a letter or aborting if one of the names already exists. Maybe even prompt for the prefix to add to the numbers (which we probably should keep at the end to avoid anything over-fancy), or take the name part from the first entry (but that gets a bit more tricky).

[WS64]

Originally Posted by meme

In what situations would this be useful? I left rename out (Add Semantics is in, though not as useful) as I didn't see a push for it, so its interesting that that's the first thing mentioned out of everything

Any examples of how you see this working? Numbers at front, at end, in the middle, what text to use if any, what to do with existing names/numbers?

I need something like this pretty often.
Usually when you got a file that has the chapters not seperated, so you just have one big file.
I use to give them proper headings and replace all headings with chapterbreaks+headings and split the files by the chapterbreaks.
After that I have nearly everything I want, except that the chapter names do not fit anything.
In this case I usually rename my epub to zip, extract all chapters, use a Windows utility to rename them to something like Chapter01 to Chapter99, remove the former chapters from the ZIP, put the new ones in instead, rename it back to EPUB, then open it with Sigil and have to repair a lot of errors in the opf file.
Would be way easier if I could just do all this within Sigil...

[theducks]

Originally Posted by meme

In what situations would this be useful? I left rename out (Add Semantics is in, though not as useful) as I didn't see a push for it, so its interesting that that's the first thing mentioned out of everything

Any examples of how you see this working? Numbers at front, at end, in the middle, what text to use if any, what to do with existing names/numbers?

I suppose you might mean you want to rename each file as say Section0001, Section0002, ... deleting whatever name was there before, and possibly appending a letter or aborting if one of the names already exists. Maybe even prompt for the prefix to add to the numbers (which we probably should keep at the end to avoid anything over-fancy), or take the name part from the first entry (but that gets a bit more tricky).

I would like this also.
some name are OMG long, I typically use 3 to 4 chars to describe the file:
ded,pro,epi,rave,p01c03 (part 1 chapter 3),copy
The ability to select a range , select a prefix and have it number 1 to n
If supplying a start number (defaults to 1) would not be too difficult (like the Manage series PI in Calibre does)

[theducks]

BTW This needs to do the rename process (all uses, like it does now) after each file is renamed. Just in case there is an overlapping name.

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by meme

In what situations would this be useful? I left rename out (Add Semantics is in, though not as useful) as I didn't see a push for it, so its interesting that that's the first thing mentioned out of everything

Any examples of how you see this working? Numbers at front, at end, in the middle, what text to use if any, what to do with existing names/numbers?

I suppose you might mean you want to rename each file as say Section0001, Section0002, ... deleting whatever name was there before, and possibly appending a letter or aborting if one of the names already exists. Maybe even prompt for the prefix to add to the numbers (which we probably should keep at the end to avoid anything over-fancy), or take the name part from the first entry (but that gets a bit more tricky).

Probably the biggest reason for wanting this feature is to make sense out great long or cryptic file names. It just makes editing a lot easier if you can easily identify a particular file.

I would envision it working something like this:
1-Select a range of files, right click and select rename.
2-Entering "part1_chap\1" would result in:
part1_chap1.XXXX
part1_chap2.XXXX - - etc
The back slash, or whatever character is chosen, indicates the starting number to increment. "part1" is just text and would not be incremented.The file extension would remain unchanged.

Thanks for taking an interest in this.

Regards - John

[congngo]

Maybe applying regex for multiple renamings. although I don't think regex works with autoincrement.

[meme]

Thanks for the comments. Its always nice to know why a feature will be used - to know how Sigil is used since I don't use it as heavily as many of you do, and to help with how to code it.

I guess something a little fancy will be required I'm not too keen on using regex in the renaming - seems like overkill.

Is there any need to have the numbers in the middle of the name - or will they really always be at the end? If at the end as I suspect, then I can just provide a text box for the Starting Name, e.g. (Section0001) and use the number of digits at the end to determine leading 0's.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by meme

Thanks for the comments. Its always nice to know why a feature will be used - to know how Sigil is used since I don't use it as heavily as many of you do, and to help with how to code it.

I guess something a little fancy will be required I'm not too keen on using regex in the renaming - seems like overkill.

Is there any need to have the numbers in the middle of the name - or will they really always be at the end? If at the end as I suspect, then I can just provide a text box for the Starting Name, e.g. (Section0001) and use the number of digits at the end to determine leading 0's.

I would be more than pleased to just be able to sequence with a prefix to numbers ABCnnn (BTW I don't ever remember touching a book that needed more than 3 (Chapter) digits. If I did, I would just put the MSB in the prefix ch01nnn

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by meme

Is there any need to have the numbers in the middle of the name - or will they really always be at the end? If at the end as I suspect, then I can just provide a text box for the Starting Name, e.g. (Section0001) and use the number of digits at the end to determine leading 0's.

You might want to consider accommodating non-incrementing digits in other than the end of the string, e.g. part1_chapter007.

Regards - John