Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-17 Thread Eelco Deuling
Hello Maarten, …maybe you are not a Python code checker but I do appreciate your help. (hell… I am not a programmer and decided during my first and only lesson of Pascal that I would never get it- 20 years ago). Thank you for your patience :-) -- -- You received this message because you are s

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-17 Thread Maarten Sneep
On 17 aug. 2012, at 15:01, Eelco Deuling wrote: > Sorry: this part I had posted already! > > This is the second part: (I'm not a python code checker ;-) # make sure you import all at the top of your file # see PEP8 import os import re ## # remove

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-17 Thread Eelco Deuling
Sorry: this part I had posted already! This is the second part: --- import os import re ## # remove OSX .DS_Store files ## for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./'): if '.DS_Store' in files: os.rem

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-17 Thread Eelco Deuling
Hello, I have done some work and made some progress with it. The following script is a test-script to generate the manifest part of the content.opf: --- #!/usr/bin/env python # call the operating system (?) ###

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-10 Thread Eelco Deuling
I am glad you are not offended, and maybe your solution is indeed what I need… But I agree you should add some documentation, as I cannot get it to work. Like I said: I am new to Python, and the solution I work on is my first effort. I did use parts of Bookbind to write it :-) and I am the first

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-09 Thread Watts Martin
Don't worry, I'm not offended. You mostly just made me realize that even if Bookbind is mostly "done," it needs a lot of documentation work still. :) But, your workflow sounds *close* to that of the book I wrote Bookbind to create, with the exception of the images, as I didn't have any of thos

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-09 Thread Eelco Deuling
Hello Wats Martin, I am sorry if I did sound offensive: that was not my intention. I "more or less" understand what Bookbind tries to do but for me it won't work, because Markdown has not enough support for classes, id's etc. I usually start with a InDesign document (a "completed" book for prin

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-09 Thread Watts Martin
I'll express a *mild* objection here. :) Bookbind is designed to let you use your own stylesheet for a book and even to override individual pages if necessary. While the main reason I wrote it is because I write prose in Markdown these days, being able to do custom styling was pretty important

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-09 Thread Eelco Deuling
Hello Maarten, Thank you for "cleaning up" my script, and thank you for pointing out to http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/. I did find this myself before, but I staggered mentally when I read the introduction in the Wiki to "create a epub in five minutes", as I hardly understand a w

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-08 Thread Maarten Sneep
Hi, On 8 aug. 2012, at 14:03, Eelco Deuling wrote: > I have finished "part one": make a directory structure and all the necessary > files for an epub. > As this is my first-ever python script there should be some things wrong, but > it works: Let me help you out. The script is not too shabby,

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-08 Thread Eelco Deuling
Hello, I have finished "part one": make a directory structure and all the necessary files for an epub. As this is my first-ever python script there should be some things wrong, but it works: #!/usr/bin/python # call the o

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-06 Thread Eelco Deuling
Thank you Watts Martin and Charlie Garrison, the solutions do "more than I want", but that does not mean I am not happy with them. I think I have enough "hooks" to copy and paste my own solution together. If it works I will post an update: will take some time though! Op zaterdag 4 augustus 201

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-05 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good morning, On 4/08/12 at 2:32 AM -0700, Eelco Deuling wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to generate the .toc and .opf files with BBEdit: I think this could be done with a shell script or a regex text factory that wraps a list (based on file extensions or tags) but I do not know e

Re: Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-04 Thread Watts Martin
I haven't tried to integrate this directly into BBEdit, but you could try looking at Pandoc or Bookbind, which are both command-line utilities for generating EPUB books. Bookbind (which is my own tool) is really designed to process Markdown documents but can handle pre-made XHTML instead; Pando

Working with ePub: generate .toc and .opf files?

2012-08-04 Thread Eelco Deuling
I use BBEdit to prepare my ePubs and used eCub to generate the .toc and .opf files. However, eCub starts to show it's age: I could not include video and audio files so I switched to Sigil. I dislike Sigil because I have to use the naming convention of this program and it is sometimes very slow w