[Editor Plugin] Diap's Editing Toolbag

[DiapDealer]

Various tools for use in calibre's Edit Book Tool.


Main Features of Diaps Editing Toolbag:
(and yes, I realize there should be an apostrophe in "Diaps" but I can't bring myself to do it! )

1) Span Div Editor: conveniently remove, change the attributes of (and/or convert to different html elements) those pesky, nestable spans and divs (as well as a few others).

2) Smarten Punctuation (the sequel): gives slightly more granular control over the the smartening process. It preserves pre-existing entities and lets you choose what you want to smarten. So if you prefer three periods to the ellipse character/entity, you can keep them if you like. Also lets you supply a text file that defines apostrophe exception words like 'cept and 'tis in order to get the apostrophe right (instead of an opening single quote). I'm attaching a sample file for that, but basically it's one word per line WITHOUT any apostrophe characters. You can also choose to go with SmartyPants' default of using numeric entities instead of unicode characters if you like.

3) Convert CM to EM: this one was one I did for roger64. It simply parses CSS files looking for attributes that have cm dimensions and converts them to em (based on a preset factor).

Please scour the differences and make judicious use of the checkpoint system before trusting these tools on your babies!!

Special Notes:

• Requires calibre v1.46 or higher.

Github Repository for the plugin code/releases

Version History:

Spoiler:

• Version 0.3.0 - 19 Nov 2014.
• Version 0.3.1 - 24 Apr 2015.
• Version 0.3.2 - 27 June 2016.
• Version 0.3.3 - 17 January 2016.
• Version 0.3.4 - 30 Jan 2017.
• Version 0.3.5 - 19 July 2017.
• Version 0.3.6 - 20 December 2019.
• Version 0.3.7 - 17 October 2020.
• Version 0.4.0 - 19 July 2022.
  

[DiapDealer]

Reserving post for future use and additional downloads.

I'm attaching a sample apostrophe exception file for use with the Smarten Punctuation tool in Diap's Editing Toolbag.

[eschwartz]

Good to see your plugin finally find a home.

[arspr]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Main Features of Diaps Editing Toobag:
(and yes, I realize there should be an apostrophe in "Diaps" but I can't bring myself to do it! )

You've missed an apostrophe... and a letter l...

[theducks]

Originally Posted by arspr

You've missed an apostrophe... and a letter l...

Satisfied now?

[DiapDealer]

What? You guys don't have toobags where you come from?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

What? You guys don't have toobags where you come from?

Nope. We have aswellbags. They hold more than toobags.

[arspr]

I prefer just enoughbags... Because of my own limitations, these tools are usually toobags indeed...

[theducks]

I prefer strongbags as I have had toomanybags let me down at the worst possible time.

[BetterRed]

I keep all my bags in my tooshed, tooboxes too - touché

[DiapDealer]

That's toopid.

[roger64]

Hi

About the cm2em feature.
1. - Can we run it on both (or all) stylesheets? EDIT. Installed the toolbar, found the arrow, unchecked the box...

If we have some style properties within the xhtml files which are using metrics, could it be made later to convert them too?

2. - There should probably be a warning for the first-time user.

Once the conversion has been done, it's advisable to check your EPUB (at least your stylesheet). The conversion process is just arithmetic. It goes from a plain value to another. The em, however, is a relative unit, and for big values (sometime as many as some centimeters...), it may look distorted and be much bigger than before. This happens about the way as you get a loooong shadow from a setting (or rising) sun (you did not really expect that one? ).

This is not a mistake. You have to know it.

3. - I am available to translate it in French.

[roger64]

A suggestion

If I may, I would like to suggest you to extend your plugin capabilities by adding to it another tick box enabling this very interesting open-source function:

https://github.com/michelf/php-smartypants
https://michelf.ca/projects/php-smar...s/typographer/

The documentation for it is clear and available online. It really would be very useful not only for French language users.

Regards

roger64

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by roger64

A suggestion

If I may, I would like to suggest you to extend your plugin capabilities by adding to it another tick box enabling this very interesting open-source function:

Calibre's editor already has a "Smarten Punctuation" function.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Rev. Bob

Calibre's editor already has a "Smarten Punctuation" function.

The point roger64 was making is the expanded French application of this specific smartening implementation.

SmartyPants Typographer can perform those additional transformations:

• French guillements done using (<< and >>) into true « guillemets » HTML entities.
• Replace existing spaces with non-break spaces around punctuation marks where appropriate, can also add or remove them if configured to.
• Replace existing spaces with non-break spaces for spaces used as a thousand separator and between a number and the unit symbol that follows it (for most common units).