How to make Sigil live (in calibre) - Page 22

arspr · 12-12-2013, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@arspr: If you have modified text in an editor, all entities are automatically converted to unicode before checking, which is why you will not get message about them. Close and re-open the editor and you will see that.

Ooops I think I found the strange issue behind my "trouble".

Grab the attached test book. It just contains two html files which are actually the same:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
  <p>&amp;&lt;&gt;&mdash;&sup2;</p>
</body>
</html>

Open the book and perform no edit. Run Book Check and you get the "Named entities present" warning twice (once for each file). It doesn't matter if you open or close the editors on each of the files, no entities are ever substituted and therefore you always get the warning twice.

Perform any kind of edit in one of the files. Then that file is automatically updated and its entities removed, (but XML ones). It doesn't matter if you open and close the editor or if you don't: when you run Book Check that file warning is gone because the entities have been internally removed.

So, entities are automatically removed, (but XML ones), BUT ONLY IF AND WHEN you make some kind of edit on the file. Is this behaviour intentional? Or should all the entities be removed on the opening of the book even with no edit in the HTML files?

I don't have a formed opinion on it. And probably the current behaviour is the good one, but just in case there's some kind of malfunction you didn't think of, I make this post.

More over, if the current behaviour is fine, could you consider automatically refreshing the editor so no open/close cycle was needed? I mean, even when I'm seeing — there's no real — anymore...

theducks · 12-12-2013, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Is there a way to insert a new image? I can see how to delete or replace an existing image. Have I missed something?

File: New file (or the paper with Green + icon ) to get the Image into your book (unused

)

I have not found the tool to place it with ease. I guess we still need to hand code.

Windows update just shut my laptop (x64) down (supposed to be MANUAL for that reason) while I was typing this on the desktop system and using that for a test case.

as I can't find an Img placing tool

kovidgoyal · 12-12-2013, 10:58 AM

Yes it's intentional, as I said "If you have modified text in an editor". But it has been removed, as I realized that some people would find it confusing. So no automatic entity conversion any more. You have to either run Check Book and tell it to fix the entities for you, or perform some other automated action in which case they get changed automatically and the open editors get refreshed automatically.

kovidgoyal · 12-12-2013, 11:00 AM

@thedcuks: As I told PeterT, currently there is a whole class of such tools to be implemented. Insert image, embed font, insert/apply stylesheet, insert link, insert heading/bold/italic and so on. Which will all automatically take care of all the bookkeeping and markup generation for you.

theducks · 12-12-2013, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@thedcuks: As I told PeterT, currently there is a whole class of such tools to be implemented. Insert image, embed font, insert/apply stylesheet, insert link, insert heading/bold/italic and so on. Which will all automatically take care of all the bookkeeping and markup generation for you.

I was just trying to be complete with my answer above.
These are 2 step actions. Add to the book (Make AVAILABLE), Then Use (place...)

Every change you have made is a step (or two) forward

Amazing

arspr · 12-12-2013, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes it's intentional, as I said "If you have modified text in an editor". But it has been removed, as I realized that some people would find it confusing. So no automatic entity conversion any more. You have to either run Check Book and tell it to fix the entities for you, or perform some other automated action in which case they get changed automatically and the open editors get refreshed automatically.

My fault, again. Too fast reading...

Nevertheless, I fully agree with that last change.

mrmikel · 12-12-2013, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arspr

My fault, again. Too fast reading...

Nevertheless, I fully agree with that last change.

Until you wish it did when you get in a hurry...Where is the "do what I mean key" when we need it!????

arspr · 12-12-2013, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmikel

Until you wish it did when you get in a hurry...Where is the "do what I mean key" when we need it!????

I don't understand you (my English level???)

But if you mean a "Fix everything" button, you do actually have "Beautify all files" in Tools menu...

But I do really hate software "fixing" things I've not asked it to fix. So I do agree with Kovid in leaving the files untouched (with all their possible flaws) until I explicitly tell the software to modify them.

jackie_w · 12-12-2013, 05:23 PM

I think the "do what I mean" key is the mythical key which magically always takes the correct action rather than the (possibly) foolish action we actually requested

mrmikel · 12-12-2013, 05:27 PM

I meant that whatever Kovid does, at one time or other, we will wish it worked differently because we are in a hurry that particular time or we overlook doing something.

joctoral · 12-13-2013, 12:06 AM

I tried this new editor and it's a very nice work !!!

Thanks a lot

GRiker · 12-13-2013, 06:28 AM

Just tried opening the editor (v1.15) via the context menu and got the following error (while running in debug mode). The editor did open successfully.

Code:

Failed to set metadata for u'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 363, in set_file_type_metadata
    plugin.set_metadata(stream, mi, ftype.lower().strip())
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py", line 438, in set_metadata
    set_metadata(stream, mi, apply_null=self.apply_null, force_identifiers=self.force_identifiers)
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/epub.py", line 319, in set_metadata
    newopf = StringIO(reader.opf.render())
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/opf2.py", line 1231, in render
    _pretty_print(self.root)
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/opf2.py", line 41, in _pretty_print
    pretty_opf(root)
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/pretty.py", line 81, in pretty_opf
    children = sorted(manifest, key=manifest_key)
  File "/Users/gregoryriker/Documents/calibredev/source/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/pretty.py", line 57, in manifest_key
    ext = href.rpartition('.')[-1].lower()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rpartition'

kovidgoyal · 12-13-2013, 07:27 AM

@Griker: Can you send em the file that caused this.

GRiker · 12-13-2013, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Griker: Can you send em the file that caused this.

On its way to you.

G

jackie_w · 12-13-2013, 09:10 AM

@kovid,

I'm getting an error in these circumstances:

Open the TOC view
Select all the text files and do a Bulk Rename
Select a text file from the TOC view rather than the Files Browser.

It looks like the TOC viewer is remembering the old filename rather than using the new filename. The workaround is to close the TOC viewer then open it again.

This is the error message:

Spoiler:

Edit: Right-click Refresh on TOC view also fixes it, so maybe it just needs a suitable message to remind the user to do the refresh.

12-12-2013, 10:58 AM	#318
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,379 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Yes it's intentional, as I said "If you have modified text in an editor". But it has been removed, as I realized that some people would find it confusing. So no automatic entity conversion any more. You have to either run Check Book and tell it to fix the entities for you, or perform some other automated action in which case they get changed automatically and the open editors get refreshed automatically. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 12-12-2013 at 11:01 AM.

12-13-2013, 09:10 AM	#330
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	Problem with TOC view combined with Bulk renaming @kovid, I'm getting an error in these circumstances: Open the TOC view Select all the text files and do a Bulk Rename Select a text file from the TOC view rather than the Files Browser. It looks like the TOC viewer is remembering the old filename rather than using the new filename. The workaround is to close the TOC viewer then open it again. This is the error message: Spoiler: Code: calibre, version 1.15.0 ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:u'Man_Smoke_split_003.html' calibre 1.15 isfrozen: True is64bit: False Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE') 32bit process running on 64bit windows ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.5 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 69, in ans File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 712, in link_clicked KeyError: u'Man_Smoke_split_003.html' Edit: Right-click Refresh on TOC view also fixes it, so maybe it just needs a suitable message to remind the user to do the refresh. Last edited by jackie_w; 12-13-2013 at 09:18 AM.

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12-12-2013, 11:00 AM	#319
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,379 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@thedcuks: As I told PeterT, currently there is a whole class of such tools to be implemented. Insert image, embed font, insert/apply stylesheet, insert link, insert heading/bold/italic and so on. Which will all automatically take care of all the bookkeeping and markup generation for you.

12-12-2013, 05:23 PM	#324
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	I think the "do what I mean" key is the mythical key which magically always takes the correct action rather than the (possibly) foolish action we actually requested

12-12-2013, 05:27 PM	#325
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	I meant that whatever Kovid does, at one time or other, we will wish it worked differently because we are in a hurry that particular time or we overlook doing something.

12-13-2013, 12:06 AM	#326
joctoral Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: kobo aura	I tried this new editor and it's a very nice work !!! Thanks a lot

12-13-2013, 07:27 AM	#328
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,379 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Griker: Can you send em the file that caused this.

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