How to combine chapter titles and subtitles

[413Michele]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You do not need #toc_1" because all it does is slow down using the ToC. With the unnecessary ID, the code has to load the chapter and then find the ID before displaying the chapter instead of just loading and displaying the chapter.

Those IDs were autogenerated during the calibre ToC generation, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think having IDs makes the index more "resilient", right? I think the alternative are file positions, which may cause problems if the file is edited later.

Also, it would be easier to find what's in what file if you renamed your files. So if Section0004.xhtml is chapter one, name it chapter01.xhtml.

Sadly the text was all in a single xhtml file, I'd rather it had coherent divisions, but it's not so (I then split it in 2 parts for size reasons but it doesn't matter here).

[413Michele]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Nothing there looks wrong. And a couple of tests I have done seem to be fine. I think we need to see more code. What is around the heading? Is it at the top of the file or somewhere further down? The fact that calibre added an id means it isn't the first of that heading level in the file.

If the book has copyright, you can use the ScrambleBook plugin to produce a version that can be posted here.

I can attach the full book, as it's not copyrighted (it asks for attribution though, so here is the source

If the existing code is '<h2 class="chapterClass">', then changing the tag to a "p" will generally keep the desired formatting. But, if it is just '<h2>', I have to change to '<p class="chapterClass">' and create a class 'chapterClass' that displays the text correctly. With your version, there isn't any change needed or new classes.

Oh yeah, understood I try to be as conservative as possible with books I didn't create

[DNSB]

I took a quick look at the book and did a bit of editing to add missing classes and do some cleanup. I also split on chapter boundaries which is my personal preference.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by 413Michele

I can attach the full book, as it's not copyrighted (it asks for attribution though, so here is the source

From a comment you made, I realised the problem was when the destination was not near the top of the book. I was able to test and prove this didn't work in the calibre viewer and the editor preview. I assume this is a bug, but, I honestly don't know what the ebook specs say about this.

Oh yeah, understood I try to be as conservative as possible with books I didn't create

I wasn't quite sure whether you were asking a question or making a joke. So, I decided to answer it. And I generally agree with you on this. When I edit a book I try to keep the overall style the same. And make as little impact on the internal code as possible. Occasionally, it is so bad, that I just throw it away and start again. There are some book sources, that I automatically do this. Smashwords tends to be one.

But, splitting the chapters, like @DNSB has done, is something I generally do. For a book like this, I would assume each chapter started on a new page in the original paper version, so splitting it won't harm anything. And produces a book that works better.

[413Michele]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I wasn't quite sure whether you were asking a question or making a joke. So, I decided to answer it. And I generally agree with you on this. When I edit a book I try to keep the overall style the same. And make as little impact on the internal code as possible. Occasionally, it is so bad, that I just throw it away and start again. There are some book sources, that I automatically do this. Smashwords tends to be one.

But, splitting the chapters, like @DNSB has done, is something I generally do. For a book like this, I would assume each chapter started on a new page in the original paper version, so splitting it won't harm anything. And produces a book that works better.

No I didn't understand in the beginning, so the explanation was necessary. Sorry, communicating with emojis is complicated...

Regarding the book internals I have a similar policy too, with the only difference that if I don't like a file I try to find a better version. Sometimes you can't though and you must work on the bad version. I agree that having a file per chapteris the best thing, no problems with ToC and the book loads faster as the files are tiny.

From a comment you made, I realised the problem was when the destination was not near the top of the book. I was able to test and prove this didn't work in the calibre viewer and the editor preview. I assume this is a bug, but, I honestly don't know what the ebook specs say about this.

About this I think I'll open a bug in calibre, after taking a look at the epub specs. I already verified that it happens with EPUB3 and AZW3 too, so there's that.

[Beathan]

Hello Everyone, I looked through this thread but did not succeed with my problem. Maybe anyone can help me out with this:

How to change chapters I have in my epub, looking as:
<p class="calibre_0">Chapter NN</p>

where NN is a chapter numbering starting from 1 up to, 89 (or 104)

I want to change this chapter line into:
<h2>Chapter NN</h2> preventing NN, of course

Is there a way to make it changed using Find/Replace option?

[theducks]

Use the Diaps Editing Toolbag plugin:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=2980740

[theducks]

Actually, thinking this over a bit, you really should include a class="justincase" so you can adjust the style the specific H2 (chapter heads) if needed.

A simple REGEX

S: <p class="calibre_0">(Chapter \d+)</p>
R: <h2 class="justincase">\1</h2>

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

Actually, thinking this over a bit, you really should include a class="justincase" so you can adjust the style the specific H2 (chapter heads) if needed.

A simple REGEX

S: <p class="calibre_0">(Chapter \d+)</p>
R: <h2 class="justincase">\1</h2>

This is what I would do.

S: <p class="calibre_0">(.*)</p>
R: <h2>\1</h2>

No need for the class. Just style h2 as wanted.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This is what I would do.

S: <p class="calibre_0">(.*)</p>
R: <h2>\1</h2>

No need for the class. Just style h2 as wanted.

Poor choices on both counts:

Including Chapter ABSOLUTELY limits the change to those. There could be other uses of "calibre_0"

AND

There could be other uses of h2

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by theducks

Poor choices on both counts:

Including Chapter ABSOLUTELY limits the change to those. There could be other uses of "calibre_0"

AND

There could be other uses of h2

Yes, if it's needing fixed, who knows what lurks!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

Poor choices on both counts:

Including Chapter ABSOLUTELY limits the change to those. There could be other uses of "calibre_0"

AND

There could be other uses of h2

That's true about calibre_0 being used elsewhere.

But not using a class and jut using <h2> is not a poor choice. It's a rather good choice. Any place you can not use a class is good such a <p>.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But not using a class and jut using <h2> is not a poor choice. It's a rather good choice. Any place you can not use a class is good such a <p>.

You like HTML 3?

[Beathan]

Originally Posted by theducks

Actually, thinking this over a bit, you really should include a class="justincase" so you can adjust the style the specific H2 (chapter heads) if needed.

A simple REGEX

S: <p class="calibre_0">(Chapter \d+)</p>
R: <h2 class="justincase">\1</h2>

Thank you, this solution made my expetations!

The other problem I face is to remove a soft hyphen from all words.
So I need to replace all accurances of

'any character different than space and any special' soft-hyphen 'any character different than space and any special'

to combining those two strings without the hyphen

In example: con-vert into convert

[Beathan]

For regex I used:

F: [a-zA-Z]-[a-zA-Z]
R:
but can not manage the Replace string