[FM Discuss] strange error when generating the epub from booki

ana.cichero ana.cichero at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 13:50:16 PDT 2011


James,

That answers all I needed to know :)
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About the original names of chapters in Booki:  new users shoud be aware
that the name chosen when creating a chapter will remain that way.
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I go back to work and thank you.

∀N∀



On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ana,
>
> I remember the problem with getting the whole book as one web page.
>
> As for the table of contents, if you get the EPUB of the book from
> archive.org and unzip it you'll see that it has a page that is not in the
> EPUB generated by OBJAVI.  This is a hand crafted table of contents page.
> That's what I was referring to.
>
> If the file names are a distraction, you might rename them in the generated
> EPUB using the program Sigil:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
>
> This should preserve any internal links.  So you could download CHUAS from
> archive.org in EPUB format, load it into Sigil, rename the chapter files,
> then unzip the resulting archive to get a website with properly named
> files.  If that's what you need that's one way to get it.
>
> I'm not in favor of Booki renaming files within itself.  I think it would
> cause problems with the software.  There are chapters in my own books where
> I changed the name of the chapter and the filename is based on the original
> chapter name.  It doesn't bother me.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM, ana.cichero <ana.cichero at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I bet is me who is missing something :)
>>
>> For a next version I would like to know how to correct this details --even
>> they are not seen by normal readers--  as they are part of the link
>> location  of each chapter for instance.
>>
>>
>> 1. Can you change the names of chapters after creation?
>>>> 2. Do I need to copy the entire chapter with the right name and delete
>>>> the old one in other case?
>>>>
>>>>
>> At the moment, trying to get the attention of readers, I need to send to
>> some schools, ( to ceibal and to other organizations) a guide [1] for using
>> the book so I am reviewing every chapter making a little summary of it.
>>
>> As the chapter summary links to each chapter I went into the html of the
>> book, and then noticed that was the inner name of the chapters that set the
>> name of link location.  C'est pas grave.
>>
>> 3 . Obtaning the full html of the book. How to?
>>
>> Remember a mail sent by Sebastian Silva mentioning that when typing the
>> url-of-the-book_all
>> there were several mistakes in the html obtained?
>> You answered him that the best way to obtain the html of the full book was
>> "dissecting" the EPUB. I was trying to do so.
>>
>> What do you mean then by  " table of contents page for the EPUB (which
>> currently must be done outside of Booki)."
>>
>>
>>    [1] http://ceibaljam.org/drupal/?q=chuas
>>
>>
>>
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