question:regex of bionic reading

[evilone]

I want to modify the ebook to bionic reading using CSS styles, but I can't write the regex.

p{    
font-weight: bolder; 
}

I write excel

=ROUNDDOWN(LEN(A1)/2,0)

Sub bold()
For i = 1 To [a65536].End(xlUp).Row
   Cells(i, 1).Characters(1, 5).Font.bold = True
Next
End Sub

Bold the first half of a single word.

pls help me Finish that Additional CSS

[PeterT]

If people want some background on this see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=346904

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[davidfor]

As mentioned in the other thread, you could do it using a regex function in the editor. A quick and dirty one would be:

import math
def replace(match, number, file_name, metadata, dictionaries, data, functions, *args, **kwargs):
    boldlen = math.ceil(len(match[0])/2)
    boldedword = '<b>' + match[0][:boldlen] + '</b>' + match[0][boldlen:]
    return boldedword

With the search as "\b\w+\b", it will make the changes. But, it does not distinguish between words in the text and tags. And doesn't handle if you have already made the changes.

[evilone]

Originally Posted by davidfor

As mentioned in the other thread, you could do it using a regex function in the editor. A quick and dirty one would be:

import math
def replace(match, number, file_name, metadata, dictionaries, data, functions, *args, **kwargs):
    boldlen = math.ceil(len(match[0])/2)
    boldedword = '<b>' + match[0][:boldlen] + '</b>' + match[0][boldlen:]
    return boldedword

With the search as "\b\w+\b", it will make the changes. But, it does not distinguish between words in the text and tags. And doesn't handle if you have already made the changes.

I am sorry about that code can't run in my cailbre additional CSS, I don't have program konwlege,think your reply,Can you give me some more code to make sure the additional CSS works on cailbre

[evilone]

Originally Posted by davidfor

As mentioned in the other thread, you could do it using a regex function in the editor. A quick and dirty one would be:

import math
def replace(match, number, file_name, metadata, dictionaries, data, functions, *args, **kwargs):
    boldlen = math.ceil(len(match[0])/2)
    boldedword = '<b>' + match[0][:boldlen] + '</b>' + match[0][boldlen:]
    return boldedword

With the search as "\b\w+\b", it will make the changes. But, it does not distinguish between words in the text and tags. And doesn't handle if you have already made the changes.

p{    
font-weight: bolder; 
}

this is bolder all of text code in cailbre ,pls give me more help ：谢谢：

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by evilone

I am sorry about that code can't run in my cailbre additional CSS, I don't have program konwlege,think your reply,Can you give me some more code to make sure the additional CSS works on cailbre

No it can't be done that way.

Originally Posted by evilone

p{    
font-weight: bolder; 
}

this is bolder all of text code in cailbre ,pls give me more help ：谢谢：

But, that won't work. What that will do is change all test in a paragraph to "bolder". That isn't what the Bionic Reading is doing. It is making parts of each word, or some words bolder. Which is what my code is doing. I doubt there is a way to do this via just CSS. You will need to wrap the parts of the word that need to be different in a tag to change its style.

As to my code, that is used in the calibre editor. It would allow you to change one book at a time to see if it works for you. It is a regex function that is used as part of the search and replace. With it, you do a search using the regex specified, and the function doe the replace side of. I would suggest you look at the help for the editor to see how to use it. If you still have problems after that, then ask questions.

And my code is just a sample. It is what I thought of when I saw the page that is referred to above. It is an simplistic implementation that would only be good to get an idea of whether the Bionic Reading would work for you. Which I only did as a I was curious about whether I could. And I see lots of problems that I have no interest in solving as I don't have an interest in reading in that way.

If this was to be done "properly" it would probably need to be in a plugin. And, as the Bionic Reading clearly states, there are Patents around it, so it should be licensed to use their API. Maybe someone will be interested in doing that.

[evilone]

Originally Posted by davidfor

No it can't be done that way.



But, that won't work. What that will do is change all test in a paragraph to "bolder". That isn't what the Bionic Reading is doing. It is making parts of each word, or some words bolder. Which is what my code is doing. I doubt there is a way to do this via just CSS. You will need to wrap the parts of the word that need to be different in a tag to change its style.

As to my code, that is used in the calibre editor. It would allow you to change one book at a time to see if it works for you. It is a regex function that is used as part of the search and replace. With it, you do a search using the regex specified, and the function doe the replace side of. I would suggest you look at the help for the editor to see how to use it. If you still have problems after that, then ask questions.

And my code is just a sample. It is what I thought of when I saw the page that is referred to above. It is an simplistic implementation that would only be good to get an idea of whether the Bionic Reading would work for you. Which I only did as a I was curious about whether I could. And I see lots of problems that I have no interest in solving as I don't have an interest in reading in that way.

If this was to be done "properly" it would probably need to be in a plugin. And, as the Bionic Reading clearly states, there are Patents around it, so it should be licensed to use their API. Maybe someone will be interested in doing that.

thank you for you reply,that question,This problem is 80% complete,Next, we only need a correct regular expression, and we can do it all.thanks!

[evilone]

Originally Posted by davidfor

No it can't be done that way.



But, that won't work. What that will do is change all test in a paragraph to "bolder". That isn't what the Bionic Reading is doing. It is making parts of each word, or some words bolder. Which is what my code is doing. I doubt there is a way to do this via just CSS. You will need to wrap the parts of the word that need to be different in a tag to change its style.

As to my code, that is used in the calibre editor. It would allow you to change one book at a time to see if it works for you. It is a regex function that is used as part of the search and replace. With it, you do a search using the regex specified, and the function doe the replace side of. I would suggest you look at the help for the editor to see how to use it. If you still have problems after that, then ask questions.

And my code is just a sample. It is what I thought of when I saw the page that is referred to above. It is an simplistic implementation that would only be good to get an idea of whether the Bionic Reading would work for you. Which I only did as a I was curious about whether I could. And I see lots of problems that I have no interest in solving as I don't have an interest in reading in that way.

If this was to be done "properly" it would probably need to be in a plugin. And, as the Bionic Reading clearly states, there are Patents around it, so it should be licensed to use their API. Maybe someone will be interested in doing that.

I find new regex,

>[^<]+<

,maybe fix

\b(\w+)\b

we can achieve our purpose