Help with links

[soparch]

I have a couple of thousand links I need to link to anchors and I was wondering if there was a regex or something like that that would help me do this.
currently I have <a href="#pg11">11<a/> etc etc and I need to link them to the correct id's (which are already in place) which are scattered across several files within the same book. The early versions of sigil used to do this automatically but now it doesn't so I wondered if anybody could help
Thanks in advance
soparch

[Turtle91]

The only way I think a regex will help is if you have already used some kind of logical method to link the two. eg <a href="#pg11">11</a> and <p id="link11">

Can you show us a sample of the kinds of id's you used??

Also, Sigil automagically UPDATES existing, valid, links when you change things like renaming files, but I don't think it will create the links from scratch for you... perhaps one more knowledgeable than I will chime in for that.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

The only way I think a regex will help is if you have already used some kind of logical method to link the two. eg <a href="#pg11">11</a> and <p id="link11">

Can you show us a sample of the kinds of id's you used??

Also, Sigil automagically UPDATES existing, valid, links when you change things like renaming files, but I don't think it will create the links from scratch for you... perhaps one more knowledgeable than I will chime in for that.

Would Doitsu's FootnoteLinker plugin be of any use.

BR

[theducks]

Originally Posted by soparch

I have a couple of thousand links I need to link to anchors and I was wondering if there was a regex or something like that that would help me do this.
currently I have <a href="#pg11">11<a/> etc etc and I need to link them to the correct id's (which are already in place) which are scattered across several files within the same book. The early versions of sigil used to do this automatically but now it doesn't so I wondered if anybody could help
Thanks in advance
soparch

Sigil has always had issues updating 'relative' (to the current file) links like you show. filename.ext#pg12 will update when split or renamed

[GrannyGrump]

It sounds to me as though your trouble is caused by lack of file-name in the href. If you don't mind klunkyness, this is what I have done when faced with this same kind of situation:

1--Insert a split marker at the top of every file except the very first one(patience, you will see why)

2--Merge all your files into one. Rename it if you like.

3--Using Search and Replace, go through and redo all the href's to include the full path as follows:

<a href="#pg
to
<a href="../Text/Merged.xhtml#pg

Of course, you would use the ACTUAL filename and extension. If you have other prefixes for some id's, you need to follow the same procedure for those.

4--In BookView, test at least some of the links to see if they still work. Tweak if needed. When all is ok,

5--Go to Edit>Split At Markers. Re-name the new splits if desired.

Your href's should update to show the new file name where the target id resides.


To prevent this from happening in future, ALWAYS use the full path in the href string : ="../Text/filename.extension#idname. Then your links should survive no matter how many times you split, merge, and/or re-name the files.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by soparch

I have a couple of thousand links I need to link to anchors and I was wondering if there was a regex or something like that that would help me do this.

You might be able to use my footnote linker plugin if the footnotes definitions are all in one file.
Alternatively, you might be able to use my AddIDs plugin to add sequential ids to footnotes and footnote definitions.