I am still not settled on the exactly how I want to generate mobi formatted versions of SPDY Book. If nothing else today, I would like to ensure that my epub formatted version is solid. To that end, I am going to give epubcheck a whirl.
Sadly, I already have Java installed. So my next step is to download the most recent zip file of epubcheck:
➜ Downloads wget http://epubcheck.googlecode.com/files/epubcheck-1.2.zipGoogle code is pretty cool in that the downloads have SHA1s associated with them, so I do a quick sanity check:
➜ Downloads sha1sum epubcheck-1.2.zip 86036eadad8408070791b3da368958239ed8a410 epubcheck-1.2.zipYup. Looks good. No unexpected Java code will be running amok on my system.
Next I install:
➜ Downloads cd ~/src ➜ src mkdir epubcheck ➜ src cd !$ ➜ src cd epubcheck ➜ epubcheck unzip ~/Downloads/epubcheck-1.2.zip Archive: /home/cstrom/Downloads/epubcheck-1.2.zip inflating: epubcheck-1.2.jar inflating: COPYING.txt inflating: README.txt inflating: jing_license.txt creating: lib/ inflating: lib/jing.jar inflating: lib/saxon.jarWith epubcheck unzipped in
$HOME/src, I create a script named epubcheck to run it from $HOME/bin/:#!/bin/sh java -jar $HOME/src/epubcheck/epubcheck-1.2.jar $1Now, let's see if there are any errors in the epub version of The SPDY Book:
➜ output git:(master) ✗ epubcheck book.epub Epubcheck Version 1.2 ERROR: book.epub: resource OEBPS/stylesheets/handbookish.css is missing Check finished with warnings or errors!Well, not too bad. What the heck is
handbookish.css?It is nowhere to be found in my local repo for SPDY Book. Maybe it's a part of git-scribe? Hrm... I don't see it there either. Maybe it's generated by git-scribe. Acking through the code, I find reference to it in the test suite, but running the test suite I get two failures on the two lines asserting that
handbookish.css should be present:➜ git-scribe ruby ./test/gen_test.rb Loaded suite ./test/gen_test Started ....FF. Finished in 12.275742 seconds. 1) Failure: test_scribe_can_generate_single_page_html(#<Class:0x00000001158000>) [./test/gen_test.rb:23]: Failed assertion, no message given. 2) Failure: test_scribe_can_generate_site_html(#<Class:0x00000001158000>) [./test/gen_test.rb:38]: Failed assertion, no message given. 7 tests, 18 assertions, 2 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips Test run options: --seed 23414Commenting out the lines asserting that
handbookish.css should be present makes the suite pass. A little investigation and I find that asserting that the scribe.css is present works:test "scribe can generate site html" do
in_temp_dir do
@scribe.init('t')
Dir.chdir('t') do
data = @scribe.gen('site')
out = Dir.glob('output/**/*')
assert out.include? 'output/index.html'
assert out.include? 'output/the_first_chapter.html'
assert out.include? 'output/the_second_chapter.html'
assert out.include? 'output/image'
assert out.include? 'output/stylesheets/scribe.css'
end
end
endI also root through the remainder of the git-scribe source, replacing handbookish.css with scribe.css. After reinstalling the gem, regenerating the epub, now epubcheck works:➜ output git:(master) ✗ epubcheck book.epub Epubcheck Version 1.2 No errors or warnings detectedAh better. I have put off my mobi toolchain issues for a day, but I feel much better about the epub that I am generating. Now if I could only get an iPad to see how it works in iBooks I might be iSatisfied (so sorry). Maybe tomorrow.
Day #105
