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I tried to create a mobi catalog, and it failed. I investigated the file it failed on, and I had some html tags in the comments. Once I removed the tags, the catalog generated fine - although it did take a while (Macbook Pro running 10.6.2) - I actually came to ask if I should kill the job. My MBP sounded like a jet about to take off, the fans were spinning so loudly. The job finished as I was composing this message, though, so all is well. Off to investigate the output.
Okay, the file is there and I can view it using the built-in viewer, but the covers are missing. The covers do, however, appear when I open the book on my Kindle. Great addition to the Calibre program, thanks!! ETA - dumb question - in reading the catalog on my Kindle, I have no navigation. No TOC, and, because it's a publication, no "go to". I also don't have section markers that I can flick left or right. I don't see a list of titles, the file simply opens to the first book and I can next/prev page. I can use the author/tag links, of course, but I was expecting a list as a sort of jumping off point. Am I missing/mis-understanding something? Last edited by tlrowley; 01-26-2010 at 03:54 PM. |
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01-26-2010, 03:54 PM | #33 |
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itimpi - I added a simple string substitution that correctly handles simple cases like series numbers from 0-999. Will be in the next release.
The challenge with sorting titles on leading non-alpha characters is a more complex issue because of the way I'm generating anchors in the generated HTML, and how/where such titles would be listed in the 'Books By Title' section. For example, all titles are currently coerced to starting with A-Z, and the corresponding sections are named "Books beginning with 'A'", "Books beginning with 'B'", etc. How would you propose listing titles starting with non-alpha characters? "Books beginning with '1'"? "Books beginning with non-alpha characters"? I'm trying to keep the output as clean as possible. G |
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Try this, Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) 2061: Odyssey Three (1987) 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) would be handled/converted to something like: Two Thousand One Two Thousand Ten Two Thousand Sixty One Three Thousand One Which would give a sorted sequence of: 3001 2001 2010 2061 (three is less than two) unless I've got it wrong. I do think an option to do straight alphanumeric sorts would be good. I have to say that I would probably only ever use an alpha sort, I cannot think of a reason to do otherwise especially looking at my booklist. But I would test whatever you write. |
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The example you gave a few answers above included 1776. Although the number is One Thousand Seventy Six most people would probably say it as Seventeen Seventy Six, so do you look for the book to be coerced under "O" or "S". Leave it as 26 letters, and everything else. Um: I forgot about greek etc |
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It's a thorny problem. 4-digit numbers without commas (1776) are translated to "Seventeen seventy-six". 4-digit numbers with commas: One thousand seven hundred seventy-six.
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It is how I handled such titles in my Calibre2web script. It seemed more logical to look for a book titled "1632" (a favorite title of mine) under books starting with '1' than under 'S'. I do not know how you want to handle non-ASCII characters (I am thinking of non-ASCII fonts here such as letters with accents), but again if possible it would seem logical to allow such sub-divisions as well if the user has set their metadata this way. I can understand that other constraints in the way the indexes are generated may make this not practical. I agree this type of preference may not be what others want which is why I solicited some feedback. |
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Generate catalog Catalog_EPUB_MOBI:run path_to_output: /var/folders/tW/tWOf7mMFGPCm5D4LmQqGO++++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.36_uLNkfP_catalog_out.mobi Output format: mobi Book count: 599 opts: basename: Catalog catalog_title: My Books creator: calibre descriptionClip: 250 exclude_genre: \[[\w ]*\] exclude_tags: ~ fmt: mobi log: <calibre.utils.logging.Log object at 0x649db70> note_tag: * output_profile: kindle plugin_path: <class 'calibre.library.catalog.EPUB_MOBI'> read_tag: + search_text: None sort_by: None verbose: True CatalogBuilder(): Generating mobi for kindle 0.00% fetchBooksByTitle() 0.08% fetchBooksByAuthor() Warning: multiple entries for Author 'Laurie R. King' with differing Author Sort metadata: 'King, Laurie R.' != 'King, Laurie' Warning: multiple entries for Author 'James Patterson' with differing Author Sort metadata: 'Patterson, James William' != 'Patterson, James ' Warning: multiple entries for Author 'Anne Perry' with differing Author Sort metadata: 'Perry, Anne ' != 'Perry, Anne' Warning: multiple entries for Author 'Anne Perry' with differing Author Sort metadata: 'Perry, Anne Griffin' != 'Perry, Anne ' 0.15% generateHTMLDescriptions() 0.23% generateHTMLByTitle() 0.31% generateHTMLByAuthor() 0.38% generateHTMLByTags() using default cover for 'All God's Creatures' generating new thumbnail_default.jpg using default cover for 'Calibre Quick Start Guide' updating thumbnail_default for Calibre Quick Start Guide using default cover for 'Just Like the Ones We Used to Know' updating thumbnail_default for Just Like the Ones We Used to Know using default cover for 'Mossy Creek' updating thumbnail_default for Mossy Creek using default cover for 'My Books' using default cover for 'Once Bitten' updating thumbnail_default for Once Bitten using default cover for 'Paying the Piper' updating thumbnail_default for Paying the Piper using default cover for 'Philosophy In The Flesh' updating thumbnail_default for Philosophy In The Flesh using default cover for 'Say My Name' updating thumbnail_default for Say My Name using default cover for 'Summer of the Midnight Sun' updating thumbnail_default for Summer of the Midnight Sun using default cover for 'The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow' updating thumbnail_default for The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow using default cover for 'The Shunning' updating thumbnail_default for The Shunning 0.46% generateOPF() 0.54% generateNCXHeader() 0.62% generateNCXDescriptions() 0.69% generateNCXByTitle() 0.77% generateNCXByAuthor() 0.85% generateNCXByTags() 0.92% writeNCX() InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running on /var/folders/tW/tWOf7mMFGPCm5D4LmQqGO++++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.36_wtatch_epub_mobi_catalog/Catalog.opf Parsing all content... Duplicate manifest entry for 'content/Genreereader.html' Duplicate manifest entry for 'content/Genremicropay.html' Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_889.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_889.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_619.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_619.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_550.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_550.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_263.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_263.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_634.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_634.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_891.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_891.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_575.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_575.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_881.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_881.html into XHTML namespace Initial parse failed: Parsing file 'content/book_890.html' as HTML Forcing content/book_890.html into XHTML namespace Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Creating MOBI Output... Applying case-transforming CSS... Rasterizing SVG images... Converting XHTML to Mobipocket markup... Serializing markup content... Compressing markup content... MOBI periodical specified, evaluating TOC for periodical conformance ... TOC structure conforms Generating structured CTOC ... CNCX utilization: 4 records, last record 1% full Indexing navPoints ... *** TOC discontinuity: nodes are not sequential *** node 761: 'epub' offset: 0x23D443 length: 0x723 node 762: 'ereader' offset: 0x23B2DF != 0x23DB66 node data 761: {'titleOffset': 189473, 'classOffset': 54, 'authorOffset': 189542, 'klass': 'article', 'descriptionOffset': 189478} node data 762: {'titleOffset': 189568, 'classOffset': 54, 'authorOffset': 189650, 'klass': 'article', 'descriptionOffset': 189576} _generate_indexed_navpoints: Failed to generate index Writing unindexed mobi ... Serializing images... MOBI output written to /var/folders/tW/tWOf7mMFGPCm5D4LmQqGO++++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.36_uLNkfP_catalog_out.mobi Tracey |
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01-26-2010, 05:00 PM | #43 |
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tlrowley: The next version will have better diagnostics, but I'm guessing that your genre tags are populated with some tags that are confusing matters for the Catalog generator. I've observed that if you use the 'Social metadata' feature and let the tags field be populated by whatever comes down the tube, you end up with dozens of genre categories that aren't meaningful or useful. While we're waiting for the next release, if you could review your tags in use, consolidate and simplify, getting rid of ones you don't care about, that will go a long way. I know you have a lot of books, but you can use the bulk metadata editing feature to clear out tags you're not using or don't care about.
See the end of the first post in this thread for some tagging tips. G |
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To all weighing in on the title sorting issue ... thanks for the input, I will cogitate deeply.
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I also get an error message when trying to create a catalog.
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