TOC created with EPUB but not LRF?

Achilles · 08-07-2009, 01:20 AM

OK, this is driving me bananas. I've spent the past two days off and on trying to clean up some RTF books into html and then convert them to LRF for viewing on my PRS-505. I've saved the RTF out to html using the microsoft word "filtered html" option and then run it through HTML tidy to clean things up. I've then created an XPath expression to detect my chapters, it looks like this:

Code:

//*[((@class = 'c1') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']

Now, the screwy thing is that when I convert to EPub the chapter detection works great and a TOC is created. When I convert to LRF, however, no TOC is created even though the log file says that it's detecting chapters. I've got "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" checked, but it's not working. Does anyone have any suggestions? Let me know what other information you'd need to diagnose the problem. Thanks in advance people!

Achilles · 08-07-2009, 02:08 AM

OK, shedding some more light on the subject... my chapter headings are inside tags... when I manually remove them and put them in tags, the TOC is created correctly... I really don't want to go in and manually reformat 7 books worth of chapter headings though...

kovidgoyal · 08-07-2009, 01:10 PM

This is with what version of calibre?

Achilles · 08-07-2009, 01:47 PM

Hi kovidgoyal, thanks for responding! (You the man by the way...) This is with the latest version 0.6.5. I've attached a trimmed-down version of what I'm trying to get to work, perhaps it'll help.

ilovejedd · 08-07-2009, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Achilles

OK, this is driving me bananas. I've spent the past two days off and on trying to clean up some RTF books into html and then convert them to LRF for viewing on my PRS-505. I've saved the RTF out to html using the microsoft word "filtered html" option and then run it through HTML tidy to clean things up.

Just a comment. If you're using Tidy, it seems to work much better if you save as HTML (in its whole tag-soup mess glory) and not as filtered HTML. I was doing something similar last night on OCR'ed text (using the built-in function in Notepad++) and I noticed Tidy was able to clean the "messy" HTML much better as opposed to the filtered HTML.

Achilles · 08-07-2009, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Just a comment. If you're using Tidy, it seems to work much better if you save as HTML (in its whole tag-soup mess glory) and not as filtered HTML. I was doing something similar last night on OCR'ed text (using the built-in function in Notepad++) and I noticed Tidy was able to clean the "messy" HTML much better as opposed to the filtered HTML.

Thanks, I'll give that a try and see if the HTML winds up being cleaner... I don't think it'll solve this problem though...

kovidgoyal · 08-07-2009, 08:05 PM

That's because the HTML to LRF conversion doesn't support anchors on inline elements like

Achilles · 08-07-2009, 08:24 PM

So I need to get rid of all my elements? That'll be fun... here I was hoping to keep the formatting of this book as close as possible to the original...

08-07-2009, 01:20 AM	#1
Achilles Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 32 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kindle 2	TOC created with EPUB but not LRF? OK, this is driving me bananas. I've spent the past two days off and on trying to clean up some RTF books into html and then convert them to LRF for viewing on my PRS-505. I've saved the RTF out to html using the microsoft word "filtered html" option and then run it through HTML tidy to clean things up. I've then created an XPath expression to detect my chapters, it looks like this: Code: //*[((@class = 'c1') and re:test(., 'chapter\|book\|section\|part\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter'] Now, the screwy thing is that when I convert to EPub the chapter detection works great and a TOC is created. When I convert to LRF, however, no TOC is created even though the log file says that it's detecting chapters. I've got "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" checked, but it's not working. Does anyone have any suggestions? Let me know what other information you'd need to diagnose the problem. Thanks in advance people!

08-07-2009, 02:08 AM	#2
Achilles Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 32 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kindle 2	OK, shedding some more light on the subject... my chapter headings are inside <span></span> tags... when I manually remove them and put them in <p></p> tags, the TOC is created correctly... I really don't want to go in and manually reformat 7 books worth of chapter headings though...

08-07-2009, 08:05 PM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,551 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's because the HTML to LRF conversion doesn't support anchors on inline elements like <span>

08-07-2009, 08:24 PM	#8
Achilles Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 32 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kindle 2	So I need to get rid of all my <span> elements? That'll be fun... here I was hoping to keep the formatting of this book as close as possible to the original...

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,551 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	This is with what version of calibre?

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