Enhancement request: special characters, invisible characters and html entities.

[PenguinCEO]

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[BetterRed]

I know you want the editor to be enhanced, but meantime here's a couple of ideas you might want to try.

You might prefer using the Sigil editor, e.g. it displays #173; in the codeview window for shy etc. If you add Sigil to calibre's open with list for epubs (right click EPUB in book details) you can then give it a shortcut, I use Shift+S,

And/or: In this editor I have the special character set to thus:



The purple blobs draw my attention to the existence of a special character such as an en-dash, em-dash, shy etc.

BR

[DiapDealer]

As long as you're willing to forego using calibre's Beautify feature, and you don't opt to automatically correct the problems found by the "Check Book" feature, it has been my experience that calibre's editor will happily preserve all of the html entities that are present in any of my epubs' html files.

And in all fairness, there are similar features in Sigil that will cause all entities to be converted to characters, too. You have to manually add all entities you wish to preserve to Sigil's Preserve Entities list if you want to use all of its features AND keep specific entities as well.

[PenguinCEO]

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[PenguinCEO]

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[kovidgoyal]

I'm afraid not. HTML entities make all sorts of processing much harder to do. That is why they are replaced by any automated task. As long as you dont perform any automated task they will be left alone. And most special characters are highlighted, so it is easy to see them and you can match them in searches using escapes

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by PenguinCEO

You did not understand what I wrote in my post. I repeat:

"And I know even better that exists the option "Edit > preferences > editor settings > replace html entities as they are typed". That option refers to characters entered as html entities and not as special characters."

In any case, to demonstrate how wrong you are, I am attaching an example epub: open it with the calibre editor and read the only file it is made of in the code editor.

As you can see, characters entered as html entities remain visible as html entities; characters entered as special characters remain invisible.

Thanks. I think I understand you quite well, now. Goodbye.

[stumped]

Originally Posted by PenguinCEO

Thank you for suggesting that there is another epub editing program. Unfortunately:

1) your answer has nothing to do with this thread nor with this section of the forum: the section is dedicated to the calibre editor and the thread is the request for extension of the calibre editor; there is a special section to talk about sigil, I suggest you go there to make your announcements;

2) sigil is a program written for windows. I, and many like me, use other operating systems;

3) Nonetheless, I had the bad idea of ​​taking a few half hours to compile sigil on my distribution: I can say that I have never seen a program written in a worse way, and in such an amateurish and approximate way. Since I do not have the vocation for suffering, I leave that program to those who have to make small changes without importance to their epubs and are not afraid of seeing them modified in a hidden and unreasonable way.

Next time, rather than saying unnecessary and unsolicited things, don't feel obligated to respond.

I see you learned nothing from the previous " attacks"

i hope this thread remains as an example of how NOT to respond to those who try to help. Perhaps you'd be more at home on 4 chan. you have the manners to blend in there.

look ma, I found the big font button he used in #1

I know well that its really annoying, And I know even better that he used it anyway

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by PenguinCEO

2) sigil is a program written for windows. I, and many like me, use other operating systems;

Sigil is available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Originally Posted by PenguinCEO

In any case, to demonstrate how wrong you are, I am attaching an example epub: open it with the calibre editor and read the only file it is made of in the code editor.

You test epub is invalid and failed EPUBCheck.

[PenguinCEO]

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[Brett Merkey]

I ask for an improvement for the calibre editor, I hope not to be attacked again this time.

It is wise, in some military sense, to ask not to be attacked when one is prepared to attack others.

Let the record show that you have not made a compelling 'use case' for your proposal.

[theducks]

As the CEO of a major publisher, he could actually afford have his IT department customize his tools. (or would that cut down on his Bonus check )

But I am a bit confused??? When was the last time a CEO did any real work in the trenches?

[issybird]

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[DNSB]

Originally Posted by PenguinCEO

2) sigil is a program written for windows. I, and many like me, use other operating systems;

And here I was happily using Sigil on Mac OSX and Linux.

Originally Posted by PenguinCEO

3) Nonetheless, I had the bad idea of ​​taking a few half hours to compile sigil on my distribution: I can say that I have never seen a program written in a worse way, and in such an amateurish and approximate way. Since I do not have the vocation for suffering, I leave that program to those who have to make small changes without importance to their epubs and are not afraid of seeing them modified in a hidden and unreasonable way.

Next time, rather than saying unnecessary and unsolicited things, don't feel obligated to respond.

One item to remember is that named entities are deprecated in epub3 and only 5 named entities are permitted (quot, amp, apos, gt and lt).

[issybird]

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Everyone move along now, ok?