[GUI Plugin] Modify ePub

[Tenome]

Any chance the "Arrange into Folders" feature from Editor > Tools could be implemented? I'm trying to find a bulk way to homogenize a bunch of disorganized epubs... Guh.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Tenome

Any chance the "Arrange into Folders" feature from Editor > Tools could be implemented? I'm trying to find a bulk way to homogenize a bunch of disorganized epubs... Guh.

Sigil has such a feature. So you can use Sigil to rearrange your ePub. From there you can continue to use Sigil or save the ePub and go back to the calibre editor.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Sigil has such a feature. So you can use Sigil to rearrange your ePub. From there you can continue to use Sigil or save the ePub and go back to the calibre editor.

They have another thread in Sigil. They want a BATCH method

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

They have another thread in Sigil. They want a BATCH method

That's not going to happen. Sigil won't do batch on multiple eBooks and calibre doesn't do it.

[Tenome]

lol yeah, that's why I was asking if it can be a feature for this plugin.

[BetterRed]

As I posted elsewhere, the Action Chains plugin can operate on multiple books within a calibre library, and it can interoperate with the Editor Chain plugin. The two plugins facilitate the automation of repetitive tasks.

BR

[Tenome]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

As I posted elsewhere, the Action Chains plugin can operate on multiple books within a calibre library, and it can interoperate with the Editor Chain plugin. The two plugins facilitate the automation of repetitive tasks.

BR

I'll look into that, thanks. Sorry for missing it (118 pages in after all).

[BetterRed]

My 'elsewhere' is in your thread in the Sigil forum - post #7.

BR

[Tenome]

It works, thanks.

[DNSB]

I updated to the calibre 7.18.100 preview and Modify ePub threw errors when I tried to use it on several ePubs. Traced it to enabling Smarten Punctuation which run into an error importing substitute_entites from chardet.py. That bit seems to have been removed from calibre's code in chardet.py.

I looked at the 7.18 chardet.py and the 7.18.100 chardet.py and added back in the code around substitute_entites (before _CHARSET_ALIASES) and ENTITY_PATTERN (after lazy_encoding_pats)

lazy_encoding_pats = LazyEncodingPats()
==> added: ENTITY_PATTERN = re.compile(r'&(\S+?);')

and

==> added: def substitute_entites(raw):
==> added: from calibre import xml_entity_to_unicode
==> added: return ENTITY_PATTERN.sub(xml_entity_to_unicode, raw)


_CHARSET_ALIASES = {"macintosh" : "mac-roman", "x-sjis" : "shift-jis"}

[kiwidude]

@DNSB - I'm not seeing any failures personally trying the Smarten Punctuation feature this just now, but not surprised there may be edge cases where this happens.

Can you please give this version a whirl - I have completely deferred to a calibre implementation:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...fy_epub-v1.8.5

If people can let me know this is working ok for them I will make it the main release.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

@DNSB - I'm not seeing any failures personally trying the Smarten Punctuation feature this just now, but not surprised there may be edge cases where this happens.

Can you please give this version a whirl - I have completely deferred to a calibre implementation:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...fy_epub-v1.8.5

If people can let me know this is working ok for them I will make it the main release.

Kovid Goyal fixed the error by adding both substitute_entities & substitute_entites back into calibre's code in chardet.py after I mentioned the issue in the calibre friday preview thread message #87. A bit funny in that the first fix was for the correct spelling of substitute_entities and then he added substitute_entites.

Edit: I removed line 22 in chardet.py:

substitute_entities = substitute_entites = xml_replace_entities  # for plugins that might use this

I then installed 1.8.5 and no issues with Smarten Punctuation.

[kiwidude]

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...fy_epub-v1.8.5

[foosion]

Is there a setting so that the plugin does not save the original_epub? At this point I trust the plugin enough to just delete without checking the revised version.

Apologies if I've missed something obvious.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by foosion

Is there a setting so that the plugin does not save the original_epub? At this point I trust the plugin enough to just delete without checking the revised version.

Apologies if I've missed something obvious.

It is a Calibre Tweak
ID: save_original_format

When calibre does a conversion from the same format to the same format, for example, from EPUB to EPUB, the original file is saved, so that in case the conversion is poor, you can tweak the settings and run it again. By setting this to False you can prevent calibre from saving the original file. Similarly, by setting save_original_format_when_polishing to False you can prevent calibre from saving the original file when polishing.