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Old 09-30-2010, 11:15 PM   #1
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Talking can calibre creat a TOC by reading numerals as chapter marks

I have a rather long book in txt format and I don't want to go to the hassle of putting two # marks in from of each numbered chapter in order to use --markdown. I wonder if I could use xpath statement to detect numerals on a line by themselves as chapter marks. If so could someone tell me how to format them?
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Try enabling preprocessing under structure detection when you do the conversion. You'll also need to change the chapter detection xpath to look for \d+ instead of Chapter|Part, etc
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Can you tell me the exact location in pref to do this?
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Old 10-03-2010, 04:03 PM   #4
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It's in the structure detection part of the conversion settings.
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Old 10-03-2010, 09:49 PM   #5
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You'll also need to change the chapter detection xpath. Change the default to this:
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//h:h2[re:test(., "\d+", "i")]

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You'll also need to change the chapter detection xpath. Change the default to this:
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//h:h2[re:test(., "\d+", "i")]
Now you confused me- doesn't that test for the presence of numerals inside an h2 tag pair?
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Now you confused me- doesn't that test for the presence of numerals inside an h2 tag pair?
That's exactly what it does. Preprocessing just wraps the numerals in h2 tags, it doesn't tell Calibre's chapter detection routines that those are actually chapters.

The default chapter detection xpath is:
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//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']
So that won't match numeric chapter headings. The book would get page breaks inserted at the H2 tags (based on the insert page breaks before default setting), so in an epub for example you would have one split file per chapter, but there would be no TOC.

You could just change one part of the xpath - 'chapter|book|section|part\s+' to '\d+' or '.*', but I used the xpath wizard, which spit out the xpath I posted previously.
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That's exactly what it does. Preprocessing just wraps the numerals in h2 tags, it doesn't tell Calibre's chapter detection routines that those are actually chapters.
Ah. I missed the preprocessing part when thinking about it.
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