suggestion: plugin to remove spaces

[Toxaris]

What about a plugin to remove spaces in filenames of XHTML and/or images? Or perhaps replacing them by an underscore?

Should not be too difficult I think, but I am not a Python expert. Could be very useful in case of a lot of files...

[DiapDealer]

Are you thinking of an automated "everything in one fell swoop" kind of thing? I only ask because renaming files in the book browser will take care of updating all links to it.

[rubeus]

How to handle these filenames:

chapter 01.html
chapter_01.html

in the same book?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by rubeus

How to handle these filenames:

chapter 01.html
chapter_01.html

in the same book?

2 steps/passes should do it (but you will lose the names)
Select the Range: Change the names to something generic to avoid clashes

Now rename those to the final sequenced names

BTW the bulk renamer allows you to skip files


sec01
sec02
p01 <not selected
sec03
sec04
p02 <not selected

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Are you thinking of an automated "everything in one fell swoop" kind of thing? I only ask because renaming files in the book browser will take care of updating all links to it.

Yup. The updating of the links would be the tricky part, especially for the images.

[KevinH]

Actually, this is not easy as it sounds in that you must go through every link/anchor/aside/footnote, etc in every xhtml file looking for changed file names in internal links.

The code to actually do exactly this is built into Sigil in a C++ routine that performs UniversalUpdates and it is run when the epub is first loaded since the paths to the files will change due to being moved into the epub directory structure used by Sigil.

In the end, it might be easier to change the builtin updates routine then to recreate all of that code in a plugin.

KevinH

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Actually, this is not easy as it sounds in that you must go through every link/anchor/aside/footnote, etc in every xhtml file looking for changed file names in internal links.

The code to actually do exactly this is built into Sigil in a C++ routine that performs UniversalUpdates and it is run when the epub is first loaded since the paths to the files will change due to being moved into the epub directory structure used by Sigil.

In the end, it might be easier to change the builtin updates routine then to recreate all of that code in a plugin.

KevinH

So it will be core Sigil as of 0.9?

Just kidding...

[kovidgoyal]

Just FYI, this would be five lines of code if you were making a plugin for the calibre editor (not counting the boilerplate for the plugin)

    from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.replace import rename_files
    book = self.current_container
    fmap = {f:f.replace(' ', '_') for f in book.manifest_id_map.itervalues() if ' ' in f}
    if fmap:
        rename_files(book, fmap)

Just replace the call to self.magnify_fonts() with the above code in the demo plugin http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/crea...t-book-plugins

and you are done.

[KevinH]

Hmm ... since all of the real work is done in rename_files for Calibre, that is very true. I think I could do something similar by extending the Sigil launcher interface and have it call the rename file code inside Sigil in a similar manner.

But I still think the easiest Sigil-based solution is to simply take care of that when the epub is first loaded. So if you are in need of a plugin quickly, doing what Kovid recommended in Calibre is probably the way to go until/if we release this feature in future version on Sigil assuming there is demand for it.

Thanks Kovid!
KevinH