How to insert links between articles?

[oecherprinte]

Hi,

I would like to introduce links between articles of a periodical. My idea was to
introduce an anchor in front of every article title:

<a name="anchor"><\a><title>Whatever<\title>

and then introduce a linke in other articles like this:

<a href="#anchor">Link</a>

However, this approach does not seem to work when I generate a mobi output file. When I click on the link I always end up at the top of the article containing the link but not at the anchor.

To my understanding all the articles are flattened into the same mobi file. So these types of links should work right?

Are there any other ways of doing this?

Thanks,

Jens

[kovidgoyal]

You cant do that, you need to include the file name as well. However, doing so is not trivial, since articles are downloaded asynchrously so you dont know what filename an article will have in advance.

What you should do is use a uuid as the anchor and then implement postprocess_book to insert the links.

[oecherprinte]

Thanks for the fast reply!

Do you have any more detailed documentation about postprocess_book? I get an oeb object in that function. How can I explore this object, extract the filenames and access the html code inside them.

Sounds like an elegant solution.

However, if everything fails I can still predict the feednumbers and filenames if I only allow a singe download at a time, right?

Thanks,

Jens

[kovidgoyal]

There is no documentation, but thge oeb object is the same as that used throughout the calibre conversion pipeline. If you just search the calibre code for postprocess_book, you will see some examples.

Yes, restricting to a single thread should yield predictable filenames.