Something weird is happening when I want to build an Index

RbnJrg · 02-15-2019, 04:41 PM

I don't know if is a bug of Sigil or something I'm doing wrong. The following is a picture of my "Book Browser View" BEFORE building an Index:

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As you can see, the order of the files is: Cover, Sinopsis, Titulo, Dedicatoria, TDC, Introduccion, Prefacio, Seccion_01, etc.

And this is the picture (of my "Book Browser View") AFTER building the Index:

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Now the order of the files is: Dedicatoria, Introduccion, Prefacio, Sinopsis, Título, cover, TdC, Seccion_01, etc.

The question is: why is that happening? That is happening even with a blank index.

EDIT: I'm using Sigil 0.9.10 and Windows 7 x64.

KevinH · 02-15-2019, 04:48 PM

Please open the content.opf in a code view tab and snap pictures of the manifest and spine tags (so we can see the order as specified in the spine) both before and after creating the index.

That may give us some hint as to what is going on.

Doitsu · 02-15-2019, 05:44 PM

I was able to reproduce this issue with a commercial epub2 book (Crichton, Michael - Dragon Teeth, Harper Collins, 2017). I simply opened the book and selected Tools > Index > Create Index.

The original order of the first 4 XHTML files in the Book Browser was:

cover.html
title.html
copyright.html
contents.html

original spine

Spoiler:

Code:

  <spine toc="ncx">
    <itemref idref="my-html-cover" linear="yes"/>
    <itemref idref="title"/>
    <itemref idref="copyright"/>
    <itemref idref="toc"/>
    <itemref idref="map"/>
    <itemref idref="introduction"/>
    <itemref idref="part001"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter001"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter002"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter003"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter004"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter005"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter006"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter007"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter008"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter009"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter010"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter011"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter012"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter013"/>
    <itemref idref="part002"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter014"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter015"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter016"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter017"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter018"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter019"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter020"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter021"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter022"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter023"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter024"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter025"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter026"/>
    <itemref idref="part003"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter027"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter028"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter029"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter030"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter031"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter032"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter033"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter034"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter035"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter036"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter037"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter038"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter039"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter040"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter041"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter042"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter043"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter044"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter045"/>
    <itemref idref="postscript"/>
    <itemref idref="note"/>
    <itemref idref="afterword"/>
    <itemref idref="bibliography"/>
    <itemref idref="footnote"/>
    <itemref idref="bm001"/>
    <itemref idref="bm002"/>
    <itemref idref="bm003"/>
    <itemref idref="abouttheauthor"/>
    <itemref idref="alsoby"/>
    <itemref idref="aboutpublisher"/>
  </spine>

after selecting Create Index the Book Browser order was changed to:

contents.html
cover.html
title.html
copyright.html

updated spine

Spoiler:

Code:

  <spine toc="ncx">
    <itemref idref="title"/>
    <itemref idref="copyright"/>
    <itemref idref="map"/>
    <itemref idref="introduction"/>
    <itemref idref="part001"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter001"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter002"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter003"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter004"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter005"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter006"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter007"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter008"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter009"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter010"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter011"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter012"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter013"/>
    <itemref idref="part002"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter014"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter015"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter016"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter017"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter018"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter019"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter020"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter021"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter022"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter023"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter024"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter025"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter026"/>
    <itemref idref="part003"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter027"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter028"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter029"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter030"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter031"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter032"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter033"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter034"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter035"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter036"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter037"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter038"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter039"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter040"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter041"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter042"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter043"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter044"/>
    <itemref idref="chapter045"/>
    <itemref idref="postscript"/>
    <itemref idref="note"/>
    <itemref idref="afterword"/>
    <itemref idref="bibliography"/>
    <itemref idref="footnote"/>
    <itemref idref="bm001"/>
    <itemref idref="bm002"/>
    <itemref idref="bm003"/>
    <itemref idref="abouttheauthor"/>
    <itemref idref="alsoby"/>
    <itemref idref="aboutpublisher"/>
    <itemref idref="Index.xhtml"/>
  </spine>

I.e., the Book Browser display doesn't match the actual spine. Also the spine reference of the item that was moved to the first position (<itemref idref="toc"/>) was deleted. The cover image spine entry (<itemref idref="my-html-cover" linear="yes"/>) was also deleted.

content.opf contained the following guide section:

Code:

  <guide>
    <reference type="cover" title="Cover" href="Text/cover.html"/>
    <reference type="toc" title="Contents" href="Text/contents.html"/>
    <reference type="text" title="Start" href="Text/title.html"/>
  </guide>

After deleting it, the bug disappeared.

@RbnJrg If your guide section contains entries, please temporarily remove them for testing purposes, before selecting Create Index and report back whether this makes a difference.

EDIT: You can also use this MR book by GrannyGrump to reproduce this issue.

DiapDealer · 02-15-2019, 05:55 PM

Crap. I see it on Linux as well. Why do people always seem to find stuff immediately after I tag the source for a new release?

Although the opf and toc will flip in the Book Browser if one of them is highlighted when creating the index, that's just cosmetic. The elements that are being reordered in the spine seems to be limited to those items that are also guide elements (semantics).

EDIT: I see that Doitsu also figured out the Guide connection.

DiapDealer · 02-15-2019, 06:14 PM

I'm starting at:

Quote:

- Better use semantic information (guide types and Landmarks) to allow the user finer control of index generation

from the 0.9.9 ChangeLog.

We need to start linking changelog entries to commits/issues/forum threads, I think.

RbnJrg · 02-15-2019, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

Please open the content.opf in a code view tab and snap pictures of the manifest and spine tags (so we can see the order as specified in the spine) both before and after creating the index.

That may give us some hint as to what is going on.

These are the <manifest> and <spine> tags before creating the index:

Spoiler:

And these are the <manifest> and <spine> tags after creating the index:

Spoiler:

I can watch the content of the <spine> changed drastically.

RbnJrg · 02-15-2019, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doitsu

After deleting it, the bug disappeared.

@RbnJrg If your guide section contains entries, please temporarily remove them for testing purposes, before selecting Create Index and report back whether this makes a difference.

Yes, I confirm Doitsu's words; after deleting the entries of the guide section, the bug disappears.

KevinH · 02-15-2019, 07:32 PM

An alternative work-around that will work correctly without removing the guide entries is to do the following:

1. Create a new empty html page. It will get appended to the end of the spine
2. Rename it to whatever you want to call the index.
3. Use the context menu button to set Semantics on that newly created html file and set it as the index.

Then go ahead and create the index. It should find the "index" you created and marked and replace it with the new index and nothing in the spine should be changed.

Sorry about that. We are testing a bug fix right now that will appear in the next release hopefully this weekend or soon after.

Thank you for your bug report!

KevinH

RbnJrg · 02-15-2019, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

An alternative work-around that will work correctly without removing the guide entries is to do the following:

1. Create a new empty html page. It will get appended to the end of the spine
2. Rename it to whatever you want to call the index.
3. Use the context menu button to set Semantics on that newly created html file and set it as the index.

Then go ahead and create the index. It should find the "index" you created and marked and replace it with the new index and nothing in the spine should be changed.

Sorry about that. We are testing a bug fix right now that will appear in the next release hopefully this weekend or soon after.

Thank you for your bug report!

KevinH

Thanks. It worked!!

02-15-2019, 04:41 PM	#1
RbnJrg Wizard Posts: 1,539 Karma: 6613969 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina Device: Kindle 4 NT	Something weird is happening when I want to build an Index I don't know if is a bug of Sigil or something I'm doing wrong. The following is a picture of my "Book Browser View" BEFORE building an Index: As you can see, the order of the files is: Cover, Sinopsis, Titulo, Dedicatoria, TDC, Introduccion, Prefacio, Seccion_01, etc. And this is the picture (of my "Book Browser View") AFTER building the Index: Now the order of the files is: Dedicatoria, Introduccion, Prefacio, Sinopsis, Título, cover, TdC, Seccion_01, etc. The question is: why is that happening? That is happening even with a blank index. EDIT: I'm using Sigil 0.9.10 and Windows 7 x64. Last edited by RbnJrg; 02-15-2019 at 04:44 PM.

02-15-2019, 07:32 PM	#8
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,630 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	An alternative work-around that will work correctly without removing the guide entries is to do the following: 1. Create a new empty html page. It will get appended to the end of the spine 2. Rename it to whatever you want to call the index. 3. Use the context menu button to set Semantics on that newly created html file and set it as the index. Then go ahead and create the index. It should find the "index" you created and marked and replace it with the new index and nothing in the spine should be changed. Sorry about that. We are testing a bug fix right now that will appear in the next release hopefully this weekend or soon after. Thank you for your bug report! KevinH Last edited by KevinH; 02-15-2019 at 07:51 PM.

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02-15-2019, 04:48 PM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,630 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Please open the content.opf in a code view tab and snap pictures of the manifest and spine tags (so we can see the order as specified in the spine) both before and after creating the index. That may give us some hint as to what is going on.

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DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,546 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Crap. I see it on Linux as well. Why do people always seem to find stuff immediately after I tag the source for a new release? Although the opf and toc will flip in the Book Browser if one of them is highlighted when creating the index, that's just cosmetic. The elements that are being reordered in the spine seems to be limited to those items that are also guide elements (semantics). EDIT: I see that Doitsu also figured out the Guide connection.