Markdown to ePub has <title>Unknown</title>

Agama · 06-07-2012, 01:30 PM

When I convert Markdown text files to ePub I always end up with the <title> tag in the <head> section of every xhtml file having a value of "Unknown". It's an easy fix up with Tweak ePub, but I just wondered if there is some better way of getting this tag set to the book's title?

DiapDealer · 06-07-2012, 02:24 PM

The contents of the <title></title> tags aren't necessary for ePubs. The tags themselves need to be there, but ePub reading systems don't really use the text they contain for anything. If it's just a personal preference, I can understand that... but I don't know of any setting that will accomplish it for you.

ldolse · 06-07-2012, 08:28 PM

I'm guessing search/replace would let you do this manually - pretty sure that has already been inserted before it gets to search/replace.

Agama · 06-08-2012, 02:45 AM

Thanks for the infos. It shows up in my web browser's title bar, (when opening one of the files during a Tweak ePub), which drew my attention to it. But since ePub reading systems don't use the value I'll stop bothering about it.

Agama · 06-09-2012, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ldolse

I'm guessing search/replace would let you do this manually - pretty sure that has already been inserted before it gets to search/replace.

I gave this a try and it worked very nicely. Thanks! It's better than doing it during Tweak ePub because it's easy to save/load these searches. (I hadn't looked at search/replace for well over a year and hadn't realised how powerful it has become.)

But this has raised another question for me? Is it possible to apply search/replace to the final xhtml and not just the intermediate xhtml? This would really help reduce the amount of post-processing Tweaks that I use.

06-07-2012, 01:30 PM	#1
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	Markdown to ePub has <title>Unknown</title> When I convert Markdown text files to ePub I always end up with the <title> tag in the <head> section of every xhtml file having a value of "Unknown". It's an easy fix up with Tweak ePub, but I just wondered if there is some better way of getting this tag set to the book's title? Last edited by Agama; 06-07-2012 at 01:33 PM.

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06-07-2012, 02:24 PM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,547 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	The contents of the <title></title> tags aren't necessary for ePubs. The tags themselves need to be there, but ePub reading systems don't really use the text they contain for anything. If it's just a personal preference, I can understand that... but I don't know of any setting that will accomplish it for you.

06-07-2012, 08:28 PM	#3
ldolse Wizard Posts: 1,337 Karma: 123455 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Malaysia Device: PRS-650, iPhone	I'm guessing search/replace would let you do this manually - pretty sure that has already been inserted before it gets to search/replace.

06-08-2012, 02:45 AM	#4
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	Thanks for the infos. It shows up in my web browser's title bar, (when opening one of the files during a Tweak ePub), which drew my attention to it. But since ePub reading systems don't use the value I'll stop bothering about it.

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