Automatic endnote renumbering after insert

[bookart]

I searched around quite a bit on this forum and elsewhere and haven't come across any clear solution to a problem I am facing.

I have an e-book in .mobi format and .epub format. I can edit the .epub file with calibre no problem. I have added endnotes, and though it takes a bit of doing with getting the links correct and all, it works okay. However, the inserted endnotes are not in numerical sequence with the ones before and after, which is what I want to have.

Is there any simple way (or any reasonable way other than having to renumber hundreds of endnotes by hand) to renumber the endnotes automatically to get them into sequential order? If I need to custom code a program to parse and replace text, that is possible (though certainly not ideal), but the .epub file seems to be gibberish and so I do not know how to parse it for xml tags and such.

Any suggestions would be a great help for me and I would guess others too. It would be great if Calibre had this feature, but it does not seem to.

Thanks in advance!

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by bookart

Is there any simple way (or any reasonable way other than having to renumber hundreds of endnotes by hand) to renumber the endnotes automatically to get them into sequential order?

I've created a simple incremental ids plugin for Sigil that allows you to add consecutive ids to user-selected tags.
If you're familiar with regular expressions, you could first add consecutive ids to all footnote tags and than use the ids to replace the existing footnote numbers.

BTW, Calibre Editor also has a Function Mode that might allow you to do the same thing.

[phossler]

@Doitsu --

If you're familiar with regular expressions, you could first add consecutive ids to all footnote tags and than use the ids to replace the existing footnote numbers.

Does this mean that there's a RE way to somehow get incrementing numbers into a 'Replace With' expression?

[eschwartz]

No, there is not a regex way. But using a python function, you can.

See the Editor documentation for Function Mode: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/function_mode.html
Specifically, the "Auto numbering sections" part.

If you need help getting the exact replacement function you need, we will have to see samples of the endnotes HTML. But I'd be happy to help you with it, so feel free to ask.