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Old 09-15-2015, 12:47 PM   #1
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Pagelist plugin for print edition page numbers

[Plugin] PageList - Generates print edition page numbers

Updated: July 21, 2022
Current Version: "0.3.2"

This plugin will generate NAV page list and/or NCX page list sections from page targets defined using the following special span tags:

Code:
<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page1" title="1"/>
or
Code:
<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page1">1</span>
(Both span types can have additional class attributes and the second variant can also have a title attribute.)

You can also manually edit the PageList.json file to have the plugin search for class attributes. For example, if you want to use the following span attributes:

Code:
<span class="com-rorohiko-pagestaker-style">1</span>
you'll need to use change the following entries in PageList.json:
Code:
{
  "tag": "span",
  "attribute": "epub:type",
  "value": "pagebreak"
}
to
Code:
{
  "tag": "span",
  "attribute": "class",
  "value": "com-rorohiko-pagestaker-style"
}
PageList.json will be automatically created when you run the plugin for the first time.
To display the PageList preferences folder, select Edit > Preferences > Open Preferences Location > plugins_prefs > PageList.

Installation:

To install the plugin open Sigil and select:

Plugins > Manage Plugins > Add Plugin > PageList_v0.3.2.zip > OK.

Usage:

To run the plugin select:

Plugins > Edit > PageList.

Note that this plugin will overwrite existing pagelist sections without warning. I.e., you might want to create a backup of your ebook before running this plugin.

After the page list was generated, you can test it with Apple Books or Azardi (Windows/OSX/Linux freeware).

Note that Azardi doesn't support the first, empty span declaration. It also apparently ignores the page list section. It's therefore not ideal for testing.

If you're using the second, non-empty span version, you might want to use the following style in epub3 books to hide the page number:

Code:
@namespace epub "http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops";

/* more CSS rules */

*[epub|type='pagebreak'] { display: none; }
This CSS rule will hide the page number in ADE3* or higher, Apple Books and Azardi, however, KindleGen will ignore it. You may want to use the empty span variant instead, because if you hide the page number span with display: none, KindleGen won't generate a pagemap.

BTW, page number target spans can be easily inserted with a clip.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+C to open the Clip Editor.
2. Create a new clip and name it, for example, page-break.
3. Copy the following text to the Text field of the page-break clip:
Code:
<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page\1">\1</span>
4. Save the clip and close the Clip Editor.

Then enter the page number in the Code View window, highlight it, right-click it and select Clips > page-break.

* Even ADE4 still doesn't support page lists in ePub3 books.

License: GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3)
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File Type: zip PageList_v0.3.2.zip (7.4 KB, 456 views)

Last edited by Doitsu; 05-21-2022 at 02:47 PM. Reason: bugfix release
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Old 09-15-2015, 12:58 PM   #2
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Hi Doitsu,

Nice addition! I have added this to the Sigil Plugin Index thread.

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Old 09-24-2015, 03:24 PM   #3
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After the pagelist was generated, you can test it with iBooks or Azardi (Windows/OSX/Linux freeware). (You could also compile the ePub with Kindle Previewer/KindleGen, generate an .apnx file with KindleUnpack and test the ebook with an eInk Kindle. However, the Kindle page display might be off by a page.
Can you explain the bolded part? It sounds like you are saying that kindleunpack will extract a .apnx file out of a Kindle book created with kindlegen (that was in turn, originally an epub that had your plugin run on it).

However, in the past when I've run kindleunpack I don't recall getting the .apnx, and in any case I thought it was a separate file that goes alongside any .mobi and isn't included inside it (ie: how would kindleunpack extract a file that wasn't inside in the first place).

I know I must be misunderstanding something somewhere
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Hi,
Kindlegen stores the info to create a separate apnx file inside the mobi it creates. Recent versions of KindleUnpack can extract it and even read in external apnx files alongside the azw3 file.

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Old 09-24-2015, 05:28 PM   #5
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It sounds like you are saying that kindleunpack will extract a .apnx file out of a Kindle book created with kindlegen (that was in turn, originally an epub that had your plugin run on it).
KindleUnpack will generate an .apnx file, if the source file contained either a valid pagelist or a pagemap and was compiled with KindleGen. (Since pagemaps are an Adobe extension and'll cause epubs to fail epubcheck, I decided to generate only pagelists with the plugin.)

BTW, if you plan to add "real page numbers" to a self-published KDP book, you can save yourself the hassle, because, AFAIK, Amazon won't generate APNX files for self-published books, unless the author also published a print edition (with "real page numbers").
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After using the page-list plug in and then exporting to EPUB3 with EPUB3-itizer, I am still not getting the list of page numbers in my TOC. Any thoughts?
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After using the page-list plug in and then exporting to EPUB3 with EPUB3-itizer, I am still not getting the list of page numbers in my TOC. Any thoughts?
If you've used the latest version of the epub3 plugin, the page list section will be automatically hidden via css.

If nav.xhtml actually contains a page-list section, locate the style section and delete the page-list id marked in Magenta:

Code:
    <style type="text/css">
    nav#landmarks, nav#page-list { display:none; }
    ol { list-style-type: none; }
    </style>
Note that some ePub3 apps, e.g. Azardi, actually ignore the nav page-list section and won't display page numbers unless they've been marked using the following syntax:

Code:
<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page1">1</span>
Other ePub3 apps won't display pagebreak page numbers in the book at all.

What app did you use for testing? If you used iBooks you'll need to activate the page number display, because they're hidden by default.
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I am testing with Readium and iBooks. I removed the page-list id from the nav.xhtml file.

I can see the page numbers that correspond with the chapters and sections of my ebook, but what I would like to do is have ALL the page numbers-- corresponding to chapter or section headings or not-- displayed for easier navigation. With which readers can this be accomplished?
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Here's what I am trying to accomplish:

1) Mark up all of the original page numbers from a textbook in my EPUB project
2) Export to EPUB3 with all the original page numbers in the TOC
3) The student can use the TOC in the EPUB3 player to navigate directly to the each original page in the textbook

Thank you,

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[...] what I would like to do is have ALL the page numbers-- corresponding to chapter or section headings or not-- displayed for easier navigation. With which readers can this be accomplished?
Unfortunately, I don't know any reader that offers this feature.
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@Doitsu : I think that what @polizoto wants is to have the page numbers appear in the ToC as well. This way the resulting EPUB can cope with the lack of support for (proper) page-list in real-world apps.

For example, you can put them as children of the corresponding main ToC entry:

Code:
ToC
  - Cover
  -- 1
  - Preface
  -- 2
  -- 3
  - Introduction
  -- 4
  -- 5
  -- 6
  -- 7
  - First Chapter
  -- 8
  -- 9
  -- ...
Albeit against the "official blessings" of the IDPF, I think it would be an idea worth exploring, at least as an option in your plugin --- I guess it would not be too difficult for you to implement it, given you have all the machinery in place.

(Not sure how to deal with number gaps, or if collapsing ranges would work. These might be user options.)
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As useful as it might seem, I think it would be terribly unwieldy. Trying to navigate a ToC with a link to every, single page number would take me longer than just jumping to the right chapter and then nudging the progress slider 'til I get the right page-number.
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As useful as it might seem, I think it would be terribly unwieldy.
I also think that it'd be a bit unwieldy, but might be useful for debugging purposes. I might add it as an optional option.

@polizoto: ADE 4.x apparently allows you to click page target hyperlinks.

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Page Number Options

Alberto is correct-- As long as a particular does not support page number navigation separately from the TOC (like Azardi or Gitden Reader), I would like to provide all the page numbers in the TOC, if possible. This feature would be important in my workflow since I am preparing books for the blind and visually impaired for whom quick navigation via the TOC or another landmark screen + VoiceOver/JAWS is essential, no matter how unwieldy it might seem to us sighted folks. I am surprised that IDPF, which consists of many of the DAISY consortium people, did not keep this fact in mind because EPUB3 has practically meant the death of DAISY, yet all DAISY books contain this feature.

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Alberto is correct-- As long as a particular does not support page number navigation separately from the TOC (like Azardi or Gitden Reader), I would like to provide all the page numbers in the TOC, if possible.
Have you tested your ePub3 books with the latest edition of ADE 4.5.x? It allows you to click on page list links (without HTML changes).
(In the Android version, you'll have to select: > Contents ▼ > Page List; in the PC version, you can select the Page List links from the Table Of Contents pane of the main dialog box.)
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