What plugin(s) would you like to see? - Page 4

Onyx Tao · 03-20-2021, 06:11 PM

It would be handy to be able to write, for example, SASS (scss) stylesheets, and have Sigil update the .scss to .css.

But any reasonably powerful CSS-extension language (Sass, Less, Stylus) would work.

Came to this forum to see if someone had already created such a beast, or, worst case, estimate the effort required to do it myself. And since you're asking what I'd like to see ... well, I'd love to see one!

Cheers,
OT

KevinH · 03-20-2021, 08:23 PM

Are there open source (GPL/MIT/BSD) projects that can take CSS extension languages and generate standard css? If so, this would certainly be something for a plugin. I have never used any of these, so links to appropriate github projects in python3, C, or C++ that does this might help.

Chang · 01-09-2023, 11:14 PM

It would be nice to have a plugin that searches the value of the first h1 element in html file and puts it in the title element of the same html file. I'm using InDesign to create ebooks and the title element is just something generic. I checked available Sigil plugins but nothing I found seemed to do this.

Turtle91 · 01-09-2023, 11:54 PM

find replace would do it.

Code:

find: <title>.*?</title>(.*?)<h1>(.*?)</h1>
replace: <title>/2</title>/1<h1>/2</h1>

Although, I wouldn't worry about doing this for each html file. Most readers/apps don't really care about that, if at all. So I put the title of the book at the top of the page, not the title of the chapters. I actually replace the entire header portion with a simplified version to clean up a lot of the fluff people put in the header:

Code:

find:
  .*?</head>

replace: 
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>Title of the Book</title>
    <link href="../Styles/styles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>

BeckyEbook · 01-10-2023, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chang

It would be nice to have a plugin that searches the value of the first h1 element in html file and puts it in the title element of the same html file.

Such a plugin exists. Download it from here.

Chang · 02-15-2023, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeckyEbook

Such a plugin exists. Download it from here.

This plugin seems to do the trick, thank you!
I'm creating accessible ebooks and I need to have descriptive title for each xhtml file as explained in Daisy's instructions. Having a name of the book in each title element isn't adequate.

KevinH · 02-16-2023, 08:57 AM

Shameless plug ... if you are interested in creating more accessible epub3, you might want to checkout my Access-Aide plugin which will properly fill in missing titles, allow img alt attributes to be easily updates, add aria roles based on existing epub:type attributes, and etc.

Chang · 02-27-2023, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

Shameless plug ... if you are interested in creating more accessible epub3, you might want to checkout my Access-Aide plugin which will properly fill in missing titles, allow img alt attributes to be easily updates, add aria roles based on existing epub:type attributes, and etc.

This seems to be a great plugin but it doesn't place the chapter header to the title element. As you probably know InDesign creates generic titles for each xhtml file so the title element is never empty. I noticed that your plugin places header to title element only if the title is empty. But I think I might use your plugin to add other required accessible features in ebooks. Thank you!

KevinH · 02-27-2023, 02:37 AM

I never use InDesign as it just makes extra work for me.

Note: You can easily use Sigil's Find and Replace All capability to empty all title tags at the same time n one go *before* running the plugin.

JSWolf · 02-27-2023, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chang

This seems to be a great plugin but it doesn't place the chapter header to the title element. As you probably know InDesign creates generic titles for each xhtml file so the title element is never empty. I noticed that your plugin places header to title element only if the title is empty. But I think I might use your plugin to add other required accessible features in ebooks. Thank you!

<title>Book Title</title>

That's how the title is supposed to be used. It's not supposed to be used to put in things like Chapter 1.

Turtle91 · 02-27-2023, 10:18 AM

Welllllll, actually….

There is no requirement for anything to be in the title tags…. Just that you have a title tag.

Originally html documents were not designed to be zipped up and put in a book…
When multi-tabbed browsers were introduced they would use the contents of the title tag in the tab, but otherwise most readers/devices/apps completely ignore the contents of the title tag.

There is nothing wrong with putting chapter names in there, it’s just largely irrelevant.

KevinH · 02-27-2023, 10:39 AM

For accessible epub reasons, they require that the title tag be filled and that they should be relevant to that html file (for screen readers and things).

Turtle91 · 02-27-2023, 11:04 AM

Valid point!

I was only thinking about ePub standard, not accessibility standard. Thanks!

slowsmile · 02-27-2023, 07:44 PM

@Chang...Another shameless plug. I also have two plugins that automatically add the section or chapter title to the <title></title> tags. These plugins are GenerteHeaders and CustomCleanerPlus. Both these plugins automatically set the title name to the current chapter or section heading name.

iieeann · 12-25-2023, 05:26 AM

Is there a plugin that can save the search & replace as favourite? This make repeating search & replace much easier.
Is is difficult to just depend on the droplist history. I have to create a txt file to save a long list of normal & regex for what i need to search and replace, then copy paste to Sigil, select either regex or normal, select either this page or whole html.... which is very troublesome. I need to do this for every book i download.

Everytime i download a book i will be like oh gosh i need to repeat the same thing all over again...

03-20-2021, 06:11 PM	#46
Onyx Tao Moderately Puzzled Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2021 Device: MARVIN on iOS	CSS Preprocessor Support / plugin It would be handy to be able to write, for example, SASS (scss) stylesheets, and have Sigil update the .scss to .css. But any reasonably powerful CSS-extension language (Sass, Less, Stylus) would work. Came to this forum to see if someone had already created such a beast, or, worst case, estimate the effort required to do it myself. And since you're asking what I'd like to see ... well, I'd love to see one! Cheers, OT

01-09-2023, 11:14 PM	#48
Chang Connoisseur Posts: 87 Karma: 50000 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	Replace title value with h1 value It would be nice to have a plugin that searches the value of the first h1 element in html file and puts it in the title element of the same html file. I'm using InDesign to create ebooks and the title element is just something generic. I checked available Sigil plugins but nothing I found seemed to do this.

01-09-2023, 11:54 PM	#49
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,094 Karma: 18727053 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	find replace would do it. Code: find: <title>.?</title>(.?)<h1>(.?)</h1> replace: <title>/2</title>/1<h1>/2</h1> Although, I wouldn't worry about doing this for each html file. Most readers/apps don't really care about that, if at all. So I put the title of the book* at the top of the page, not the title of the chapters. I actually replace the entire header portion with a simplified version to clean up a lot of the fluff people put in the header: Code: find: .?</head> replace: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Title of the Book</title> <link href="../Styles/styles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/> </head> Last edited by Turtle91; 01-10-2023 at 12:01 AM.*

02-27-2023, 02:37 AM	#54
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,644 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	I never use InDesign as it just makes extra work for me. Note: You can easily use Sigil's Find and Replace All capability to empty all title tags at the same time n one go before running the plugin. Last edited by KevinH; 02-27-2023 at 04:27 AM.

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03-20-2021, 08:23 PM	#47
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,644 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Are there open source (GPL/MIT/BSD) projects that can take CSS extension languages and generate standard css? If so, this would certainly be something for a plugin. I have never used any of these, so links to appropriate github projects in python3, C, or C++ that does this might help.

02-16-2023, 08:57 AM	#52
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,644 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Shameless plug ... if you are interested in creating more accessible epub3, you might want to checkout my Access-Aide plugin which will properly fill in missing titles, allow img alt attributes to be easily updates, add aria roles based on existing epub:type attributes, and etc.

02-27-2023, 10:18 AM	#56
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,094 Karma: 18727053 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Welllllll, actually…. There is no requirement for anything to be in the title tags…. Just that you have a title tag. Originally html documents were not designed to be zipped up and put in a book… When multi-tabbed browsers were introduced they would use the contents of the title tag in the tab, but otherwise most readers/devices/apps completely ignore the contents of the title tag. There is nothing wrong with putting chapter names in there, it’s just largely irrelevant.

02-27-2023, 10:39 AM	#57
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,644 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	For accessible epub reasons, they require that the title tag be filled and that they should be relevant to that html file (for screen readers and things).

02-27-2023, 11:04 AM	#58
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,094 Karma: 18727053 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Valid point! I was only thinking about ePub standard, not accessibility standard. Thanks!

02-27-2023, 07:44 PM	#59
slowsmile Witchman Posts: 628 Karma: 788808 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Philippines Device: Android S5	@Chang...Another shameless plug. I also have two plugins that automatically add the section or chapter title to the <title></title> tags. These plugins are GenerteHeaders and CustomCleanerPlus. Both these plugins automatically set the title name to the current chapter or section heading name.

12-25-2023, 05:26 AM	#60
iieeann Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2020 Device: Android	Is there a plugin that can save the search & replace as favourite? This make repeating search & replace much easier. Is is difficult to just depend on the droplist history. I have to create a txt file to save a long list of normal & regex for what i need to search and replace, then copy paste to Sigil, select either regex or normal, select either this page or whole html.... which is very troublesome. I need to do this for every book i download. Everytime i download a book i will be like oh gosh i need to repeat the same thing all over again...