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

James Simmons nicestep at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 13:55:33 PDT 2011


Ana,

Something like what you ask for should go into the Booki users guide I
guess.

Jim


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:50 PM, ana.cichero <ana.cichero at gmail.com> wrote:

> James,
>
> That answers all I needed to know :)
> ----------------
> 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.
> -----------------
> 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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