ValueError: The text file has no fragments

[Audun97]

Hello, I would be very grateful if someone could help. I do not understand the error occurring after having run the sync command.

I have the xhtml and matching audio in separate folders as described. I just opened an epub as a zip file and extracted the xhtml files. That is okey right?

Best Regards,

Audun

[r4victor]

@Audun97, syncabook looks for XHTML tags with attributes id="f[0-9]+" and uses them as the units of synchronization. Here's an example: https://github.com/r4victor/afaligner/blob/master/tests/resources/shakespeare/text_complete/p001.xhtml

You can make XHTML files with such id tags from plaintext with the to_xhtml command. If try your own XHTML files, they won't have the proper attributes, so syncabook won't work.

The solution would be to start with plaintext and use to_xhtml, or to modify your extracted XHTMLs to contain tags with proper attributes.

I clarified this in the readme.

[Audun97]

@r4victor Ahh thank you. I must have misunderstood. When I convert an xhtml to text I lose formatting. Is there no way to do it without losing formatting?

[r4victor]

As I've said, in this case the option is to modify the existing xhtml to add the id attributes. This will require some programming, of course.

It may be a good idea to have a command that preprocesses existing xhtmls to automate this. For example, it may just add id attributes to all p tags that are already there, or add span tags inside existing p tags, something of that sort. I may add this some day.

[Audun97]

Cool thanks :) Would be great for people who are not too good at programming