: Automating Links (EPUB, HTML) EDIT: Disregard this question, I solved it using regular expressions (I thought they wouldn't work in this scenario but they did) I'm working on a translation of

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EDIT: Disregard this question, I solved it using regular expressions (I thought they wouldn't work in this scenario but they did)

I'm working on a translation of a text which is divided into short, numbered sections. It looks something like this:

Following his departure from Athens, the general decided to [...]
It was around this same time that the Egyptian king was assassinated, and the realm was thrown into chaos.

Now, these numbered sections are contained within their own tags, so these numbers are directly preceded by a , like so:

55. Following the events of the Spring[...]

I have a completed epub, comprised of 8 html files, each file containing roughly 150 sections numbered 1 through 150 and beginning again at number 1 in the next html file. The ebook itself is separated into chapters one through eight, corresponding with the numbers of the html files.

Now here's the catch: I have another translation. I would like to include this alternative translation in the same ebook, with the numbered sections containing a hyperlink to the alternative translation. This would be done by containing the numbers inside <a href=""> tags which also link to the corresponding number in the alternative translation, like so:

Current:

68. The king liked cats.

Desired:

<a href="[ALTERNATIVE LINK TO SECTION 68]">68.</a> The king liked cats.

But after clicking the "68." link to read translation #2 , it would be nice to have a link which circles back to translation #1 , which will be contained in the second translation's "68."

So, effectively, I already have the necessary markers to designate the place and the contents of the <a href=> tags, the only thing that I lack is a way to automate this process, since I have well over 1,000 numbered sections to link back and forth to each other. I'm a noob when it comes to ebooks so I'm not even sure if it's possible, I mainly mess around with Calibre and it seems like such a thing may be possible using the Python functions, but I have no idea where to start.

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