Out of Order Converting HTML Files with a TOC

PeterPark · 02-17-2012, 07:17 PM

Hey guys,
I've been struggling for a while to figure this out. I searched the forums, and the closest solution I found was to use Sigil to re-arrange the book and then convert to mobi.

Anyway, I have a ton of HTML pages, each of them I want to be its own chapter. The filename format is "#-Title.html" so for example "100-Using-Calibre.html"

I have a TOC HTML file that references each of the HTML files in increasing # order.

However, once it's converted to mobi, the book jumps from 0, 1, 10, 101, 102, and so on. Instead of obviously 0, 1, 2, 3, ...

I have some 500+ chapters/html files so doing this by hand in Sigil sounds rather time consuming.

I'm not sure what's wrong.

The only other solution I can think of is to combine all the HTML files into one HTML file. But I'm not sure how to build a TOC though. Each HTML page does have a <h1> tag title though.

Any help would be appreciated, I've spent hours here and going nuts. Initially I thought it was out of order because of the html file's creation time until I noticed this pattern.

wallcraft · 02-17-2012, 08:12 PM

The simplest approach is probably to rename the files to always start with 3-digits. So 1-Title becomes 001-Title, 99-Title becomes 099-Title. This is very easy to do with a script in Linux, and I assume it can also be scripted under Windows (but I don't the details of how to do this).

An approach, that works with an arbitrary order is to provide an .opf file which lists the order of the files. See ePub: OPF.

dwig · 02-18-2012, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by PeterPark

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I have some 500+ chapters/html files so doing this by hand in Sigil sounds rather time consuming...

If you are using Windows, the renaming can be done easily and very quickly with Bulk Rename Utility: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Using it requires only one pass for the single digit numbers and a second pass for the 2 digit numbers.

PeterPark · 03-03-2012, 08:36 PM

Thanks guys, I thought for some reason this thread never got posted. But using prefix zeroes definitely worked.

02-17-2012, 07:17 PM	#1
PeterPark Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle	Out of Order Converting HTML Files with a TOC Hey guys, I've been struggling for a while to figure this out. I searched the forums, and the closest solution I found was to use Sigil to re-arrange the book and then convert to mobi. Anyway, I have a ton of HTML pages, each of them I want to be its own chapter. The filename format is "#-Title.html" so for example "100-Using-Calibre.html" I have a TOC HTML file that references each of the HTML files in increasing # order. However, once it's converted to mobi, the book jumps from 0, 1, 10, 101, 102, and so on. Instead of obviously 0, 1, 2, 3, ... I have some 500+ chapters/html files so doing this by hand in Sigil sounds rather time consuming. I'm not sure what's wrong. The only other solution I can think of is to combine all the HTML files into one HTML file. But I'm not sure how to build a TOC though. Each HTML page does have a <h1> tag title though. Any help would be appreciated, I've spent hours here and going nuts. Initially I thought it was out of order because of the html file's creation time until I noticed this pattern.

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02-17-2012, 08:12 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The simplest approach is probably to rename the files to always start with 3-digits. So 1-Title becomes 001-Title, 99-Title becomes 099-Title. This is very easy to do with a script in Linux, and I assume it can also be scripted under Windows (but I don't the details of how to do this). An approach, that works with an arbitrary order is to provide an .opf file which lists the order of the files. See ePub: OPF.

03-03-2012, 08:36 PM	#4
PeterPark Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle	Thanks guys, I thought for some reason this thread never got posted. But using prefix zeroes definitely worked.