Manifest mess - tools for resorting?

Fitz Frobozz · Yesterday, 01:41 PM

Well, not a mess per se, but it's confusing for me to read and it would be nice to have an option for resorting things so that the order in which they are listed actually matches the order in the book (more closely, that is). This came up while working my way through bugs identified by the Kindle Previewer tool.

Anything come to mind for anyone?

Edit: Oh, I found the Rebase OPF Manifest IDs on Current Filenames feature in Sigil and it appears to achieve almost exactly what I had in mind.

Edit #2: Oops, I was wrong. I like the tool but it doesn't actually sort in the order I'm wanting to see (book/part/chapter/chapter-section order, essentially). Not fully, anyway. Can't figure out why but my first guess is some items are ordered the way they are because something is using creation date/time info as one of its criteria.

JSWolf · Yesterday, 03:34 PM

Why does it matter the order of the manifest in the OPF?

KevinH · Today, 09:16 AM

Yes, the manifest order is meaningless and can never be seen by a reader of the epub. The spine determines the display order by providing an ordered list of manifest ids.

And understand that the manifest will include many resources not part of any one xhtml file such as images, css, fonts, and therefore not part of the spine. So what "order" would you use for those?

If you use Sigil or Calibre, epubcheck can be used and the error information from the validation window will take you directly to the file with the error, and drag, and drop can be used to reorder the spine. And of course using Find when editing the OPF can be used to track down manifest entries if you have really large manifest.

Yesterday, 01:41 PM	#1
Fitz Frobozz Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2024 Device: Kindle Scribe	Manifest mess - tools for resorting? Well, not a mess per se, but it's confusing for me to read and it would be nice to have an option for resorting things so that the order in which they are listed actually matches the order in the book (more closely, that is). This came up while working my way through bugs identified by the Kindle Previewer tool. Anything come to mind for anyone? Edit: Oh, I found the Rebase OPF Manifest IDs on Current Filenames feature in Sigil and it appears to achieve almost exactly what I had in mind. Edit #2: Oops, I was wrong. I like the tool but it doesn't actually sort in the order I'm wanting to see (book/part/chapter/chapter-section order, essentially). Not fully, anyway. Can't figure out why but my first guess is some items are ordered the way they are because something is using creation date/time info as one of its criteria. Last edited by Fitz Frobozz; Yesterday at 03:14 PM.

Today, 09:16 AM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,089 Karma: 5450184 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Yes, the manifest order is meaningless and can never be seen by a reader of the epub. The spine determines the display order by providing an ordered list of manifest ids. And understand that the manifest will include many resources not part of any one xhtml file such as images, css, fonts, and therefore not part of the spine. So what "order" would you use for those? If you use Sigil or Calibre, epubcheck can be used and the error information from the validation window will take you directly to the file with the error, and drag, and drop can be used to reorder the spine. And of course using Find when editing the OPF can be used to track down manifest entries if you have really large manifest. Last edited by KevinH; Today at 11:37 AM.

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