LRF output

[marwick]

I tried that "save to rtf and then convert to lrf" option. I got a better result. Something like:
Chapter 1]23
LINK

Chapter 2]76
LINK

etc.

Chapter name, page number, the word "LINK". It was ugly, but at least I got the information I needed: the chapter name. It is nevertheless not very useful for me, as I loose pictures with this option.
The problem is that my original file is a Word document. I could try a copy-paste of just text and format to an Openoffice Write empty document and then create the TOC there, make the html and see what happens when converting to lrf.
I have an Office 2003 at work (that's where I am now), and there's no "export to" or "save as" clean html option. There's a "save to filtered html" though.

I'll give both Openoffice and "save to filtered html" a try when I get back home, on the original file. I'll let you know what I get.

[kovidgoyal]

yeah filtered html is what I meant.

[marwick]

And filtered html is the solution
Perfect. I didn't even try the Openofice option.

Thanks for the clue kovidgoyal. And thanks again for our awesome creation.

[Undue Process !]

Is it possible to index pages through a depth-first following of the links? I have an html tree that has an index page that links to a larger index page and every link on that page is a small index page for a section. Now the order of the pages is First Index->Large Index->All the Small Indexes->Content, whereas it would be better to have First Index->Large Index->Small Index 1->Content 1->Small Index 2->Content 2 etc.

[kovidgoyal]

You can force a particular page order by creating a OPF file with a <spine> element and using the --use-spine option

[beowulf573]

Kovid, do you know if html2lrf can accept an output file path containing UTF-8 characters? The unicode characters in the created filename seem to be corrupted (or perhaps UTF-8 treated as ANSI). The unicode characters in the title are embedded as meta-data correctly.

This is for 0.4.72 under Windows XP. Linux appears to work correctly, but I'll check for sure when I get home tonight.

thanks

[kovidgoyal]

Unfortunately, there's no simple answer to this. The problem is that html2lrf has to guess what encoding commandline arguments are passed to it in. The encoding it uses depends on a lot of factors, including the OS its localization, the file systems preferred encoding, blah blah. The safest thig to do is to write your metadata into a nice UTF-8 encoded OPF file in the same directory as the html file. html2lrf will then pick up the metadata from there.

[beowulf573]

The meta-data seems to be picked up correctly, it's the output file specified with -o that appears to be incorrect. Although I may add the OPF method later for the meta-data just to be on the safe side.

Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

I have made some changes in trunk to how the decoding of paths on the command line is done. Try the next release and see or run it from trunk.

[beowulf573]

Cool, will do.

[Lloyd Harris]

Hi - I'm having a go at converting HTML Gutenberg titles to lrf for the Sony Reader using Bookdesigner. Unfortunately any illustrations are failing to transfer - I get blank boxes showing where the illustration should be. I did find a reference to this problem, but my limited knowledge meant that I couldn't decipher the solution!

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Lloyd Harris

Hi - I'm having a go at converting HTML Gutenberg titles to lrf for the Sony Reader using Bookdesigner. Unfortunately any illustrations are failing to transfer - I get blank boxes showing where the illustration should be. I did find a reference to this problem, but my limited knowledge meant that I couldn't decipher the solution!

Put the HTML file and the images into a ZIP file and see if that helps. (Doh... calibre does this, not sure for Bookdesigner.)

BOb

[Lloyd Harris]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Put the HTML file and the images into a ZIP file and see if that helps. (Doh... calibre does this, not sure for Bookdesigner.)

BOb

Thanks pilotbob - It worked a treat. How simple! I don't know why anyone would open the other HTML file in Gutenberg if they were converting to lrf.

[pepak]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

html2lrf will also read metadata from opf files that are in the same directory as the file you are trying to convert

Anyone, could you please post a sample OPF file? Just so that I can see how it looks like and be able to create my own :-)

(For now, I am putting my metadata inside HTML files, but since HTML2LRF does not and will not support that, I would have to write an application which would read them from the HTML and then construct a command line for HTML2LRF.

I might do that anyway, because it would allow a lot tidier directory structure. E.g.:

<meta name="lrf:author" content="John Smith">
<meta name="lrf:author-sort" content="SMITH JOHN">
...
<meta name="lrf:force-page-break-before-tag" content="h[123]">

I would much prefer to have this directly in HTML2LRF, but it should be easy enough to write my own application for that)

[llasram]

Originally Posted by pepak

Anyone, could you please post a sample OPF file? Just so that I can see how it looks like and be able to create my own :-)

The OPF spec itself includes a fair number of examples.