03-15-2018, 03:17 PM | #631 |
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New version. Unfortunately still not version 2.0, but version 1.27.
There is only one new thing in this version. I got a message from someone who saw some kind of random text appearing in the HTML/ePUB after conversion. After looking at the original document, I quickly found out that it contained hidden text. Upon conversion it became visible and thus the text was different. So, in this version there is a new option (in the HTML settings) to remove the hidden text before conversion. It will of course not change the source document. You can find it on my site of course. |
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Hi Toxaris - a suggestion for version 2.x.
Assuming the Search and Replace and Mark Words features will retain the same functionality via a list of rules, add a disable/enable checkbox to each rule. Occasionally I don't want to apply a specific rule to a specific document. The only way I know of to do that today is to delete the rule, and remember to reinstate it when I'm done with that document. The first bit is easy enough, it's the second bit that's tricky. First I have to remember to do it, secondly I have to remember what the rule was. Yes, I could restore a backup of the rules, but a disable/enable switch would be soooo much easier. BR |
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I assume you mean the automatic processing of rules? If you do not enable processing of a specific rule, it will ask you if the rule should be processed or not first. That is process at the moment.
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But I'd mainly use in my Mark Word rule sets (of which I have several), which are automatic by definition. BR |
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On reflection, disable/enable would be useful in manual-rules. If I had 50 manual rules, and I disabled 30 of them then I would reduce my workload significantly - basically I would be saying I don't care about these 30 cases.
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I will take a look at it, usability (more accurate, ease of use) might be an issue though.
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In context of current version. I was thinking of an additional (leftmost) column of checkboxes labelled Disable/Enable in S&R and Mark settings. I can't see how that would be any harder to use than the existing columns of check boxes.
Then, when the rule set was applied to a document the Disabled rules would be ignored, i.e. there would be no user interaction for those items, because, virtually, they don't exist BR Last edited by BetterRed; 05-09-2018 at 07:06 PM. |
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The harder part is located in the backwards compatibility and some other stuff.
With regards to the S&R, the idea was that it is possible to organize the rules in tables and you can easily ignore a whole table. Like I said, I will take a look at it, but don't expect anything soon though. |
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Hi Toxaris
Suddenly the Mark tool has stopped working. I Mark with colour not a tag (more to come on that) It runs, I see the scroll bar jump around, and it takes about as long as I would expect. After a while I get a popup to say words were marked but nothing is marked, i.e no words are coloured. Word's Text Highlight Colour function is working. So what changed? Windows - I upgraded from 1709 to 1803 on Sunday. And I think this is the first time I've run the Mark tool since then. Whilst there's nothing in 1803 I really need, I would prefer not to revert to 1709. I tried to put something (###) in "Mark tag" but it won't persist, i.e. if I exit Mark settings, and then go back into it, Mark tag is blank again. I have Save on exit checked. If I change the colour the new colour persists. Where is Mark Tag kept - if I could update it manually I could test to see if the Mark tool works with a tag. Added: I think I found it in ePUBTools.cfg. I changed it to this Code:
<ConfigValues> <OptionName>MarkTag</OptionName> <OptionValue>###<OptionValue> </ConfigValues> Added : I tried reinstalling the add-in - now I can't get the check box in COM Add-in to stick. I've had this before, can't recall how I fixed it - Fixed: uninstall from control panel, rename the Toxaris folder in %APPDATA%, fresh install BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-11-2018 at 03:15 AM. |
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OK - after a complete reinstall of EPUB Tools and Quick Repair of Office (that was just in case), I'm sort of back where I was.
Bottom line: Colour Only marking no longer works. If I put '###' into <OptionName>Mark Tag in the .cfg file then I get the ### marks and the colours. This means I have to read through the [###] and [/###] marks. Even if I shorten it to one '#' it's still very distracting - I'm editing content, including punctuation and grammar. It means I'll have to get rid of the pesky things before looking for highlighted words. I can remove the highlights from a page, a section, or a document with a couple of keystroke sequences. Any suggestions on what to try to get it back the way it was? FWIW: I've never understood why Mark Tag and Mark Colour are not mutually exclusive- i.e one or the other, why would anyone want both? If truth be told I don't really see why anyone would want Mark Tag at all, given Word has Find and Clear highlight features. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-11-2018 at 03:50 AM. |
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Funny (for me at least), it never occurred to me that someone would use the mark without tags, so I never designed it for that. There is no real reason why it not mutually exclusive. I will look in the code if I can explain this. The Windows release should not have an impact at all.
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So, the question is - how the heck did I get it to highlight without a tag. If I had used something like thin space I would have them sprinkled through the text. After I convert to EPUB I always check the Characters report from the calibre editor for any 'unusual' characters, so I would have seen them there. I didn't really think is was Windows either, but that was the only thing that changed in the days immediately prior to the highlights going awol It must have been something in the %APPDATA%\Toxaris folder, because renaming it, and doing a fresh install also solved the COM Add-ins checkbox problem - as it has done on previous occasions. Note: I haven't done anything explicit to settings in months (years even). If it's possible and simple, and you have the time, perhaps you could create a new version that allows the Mark Tag to be empty. Added : Just to be clear, I have a workable solution. I couldn't get a new value for Mark Tag to stick if I entered it in the Settings dialogue; so, I edited the .cfg file manually to set to '###". I've created a trivial macro to replace '[###]' and '[/###]' will null, which I use before I step through the highlighted words. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-11-2018 at 07:32 PM. Reason: Added |
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A few months back, my Postprocess OCR started getting frozen on the "Set Language" step. After several PMs to Toxaris (and me comparing a completely fresh install in a VM), I found the solution: My EPUB Tools > Settings > Postprocess OCR > "Set document language to" somehow magically turned blank. Once I set it to English, everything started working. Perhaps there is some dastardly setting for Mark Tag that blanked itself out. Speaking of gremlins, this still also happens to me occasionally. Still no rhyme or reason (sometimes it works for weeks no problems, sometimes it disappears one document only to work perfectly in the next). (Curse you Windows/Office, curse you!) Last edited by Tex2002ans; 09-11-2018 at 08:08 PM. |
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My speculation is that the gremlin puts the ePUBTools.cfg file into a state that causes the add-in initialisation code to error out when its loaded at Word start-up. And its probably the same gremlin that tampered with your OCR Language setting and my Mark Tag setting. Development of Word Add-ins is a notoriously fickle endeavour - that's probably why there aren't very many of them. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-12-2018 at 03:45 AM. |
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Well, on the good side, I rewrote the complete settings part in the new version and it is much, much stable and resilient. Downside is that this version is not done yet and it will be a while. However, I will look at the old code and see if I can quickly (and correctly) fix it for you.
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