Some cleanups and fixes.

README.md

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 A tool to convert all installed man pages to a simple ebook or other formats with contents in the head.
 
-Maybe this could be only a small shell script but if not I will use Python.
+~~Maybe this could be only a small shell script but if not I will use Python.~~ - It is Python now... :)
 
-## Why man pages as ebook?
+## Why man pages as book?
 
 Because I want to read them comfortable on my ebook reader when traveling but all man pages in one book.
 Not more... ;)
@@ -15,23 +15,23 @@ Not more... ;)
   https://pypi.org/project/pypandoc/ or https://pypi.org/project/pandoc/.
   (very mature features for document conversion like direct manpage input and epub output, 
   but I don't know much about pandoc, so I need to discover this.)
-- https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
+- ~~https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
-  (man -Thtml df > df.html)
+  (man -Thtml df > df.html)~~
-- https://linux.die.net/man/1/man2html
+- ~~https://linux.die.net/man/1/man2html
-  (is nice because it must not generate html, head and body)
+  (is nice because it must not generate html, head and body)~~
-- https://pypi.org/project/epubmaker/ - Python
+- ~~https://pypi.org/project/epubmaker/ - Python
-  (maybe nice but unmaintained)
+  (maybe nice but unmaintained)~~
-- https://docutils.sourceforge.io/ - Python
+- ~~https://docutils.sourceforge.io/ - Python
-  (as I can see now it only converts from .rst files.)
+  (as I can see now it only converts from .rst files.)~~
-- https://github.com/hanez/aov-html2epub - Bash
+- ~~https://github.com/hanez/aov-html2epub - Bash~~
 
 ## Workflow
 
-1. Read manpage sections
+1. ~~Read manpage sections~~
-2. Create HTML file for each manpage in each section
+2. ~~Create HTML file for each manpage in each section~~
-3. Read and store title(metadata) for in each file
+3. ~~Read and store title(metadata) for in each file~~
-4. Remove all unneeded stuff like html, head and body in each file
+4. ~~Remove all unneeded stuff like html, head and body in each file~~
-5. Create TOC for the entire ebook
+5. ~~Create TOC for the entire ebook~~
 6. Create a header HTML file for the ebook containing the head tag
 7. Merge toc and content of all files for preparing the ebook
 8. Merge the header file with the prepared ebook while inserting html and body tags which should result in a valid HTML file

man2book

@@ -6,21 +6,15 @@ import re
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 __author__ = 'Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>'
-__version__ = '0.0.3'
+__version__ = '0.0.4'
 
 DIR = '/home/hanez/code/man2book/'
-# the limit is just for development to limit the number of man pages in each section. set to 0 to
-# have no limit.
 LIMIT = 0
 MANPAGE_PATH = '/usr/share/man/'
 OUTPUT_DIR = DIR + 'output/'
 TMP_DIR = '/tmp/man2book/'
 
 sections = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8']
-# the toc will be a nested dictionary: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-nested-dictionary/
-# toc = {'section1': {'title': 'title', 'anchor': 'anchor'},
-#        'section1': {'title': 'title', 'anchor': 'anchor'},
-#        'section2': {'title': 'title', 'anchor': 'anchor'}}
 toc = {}
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
@@ -29,9 +23,6 @@ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
     epilog='author: ' + __author__,
     prog='man2book')
 
-# if using this feature there must be a way to set the section for each manpage since the name
-# can be used in more than one section. maybe make it optional like df:1 or so. so this feature
-# is not reliable at the moment.
 parser.add_argument('-m', '--manpages', metavar='MANPAGES', help='limit only to a subset of '
                                                                  'man pages. e.g. cd or a list '
                                                                  'like cd,df,mv. this feature '
@@ -90,7 +81,7 @@ for section in sections:
                 os.system('rm -rf ' + TMP_DIR + manpage_file)
                 pass
             os.system('pandoc --from man --to html < ' + TMP_DIR + manpage +
-                      ' > ' + TMP_DIR + manpage + '.html')
+                      ' > ' + TMP_DIR + section + '.' + os.path.splitext(manpage)[0] + '.html')
 
             os.system('rm -rf ' + TMP_DIR + manpage)
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1 @@
 beautifulsoup4~=4.11.1
-lxml~=4.9.1
-pandocfilters~=1.5.0