Also, maybe this could help: https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:54:52 AM UTC-3 Bastien DUMONT wrote: > Maybe you could restore the paragraphs you replaced with "test" one by one > and convert the document until Bidi throws an error. Then, you can remove > the sentences of the offending paragraph one by one until the document is > read again without error. Thus you could isolate at least one of the > sentences that cause the error. > > Le Monday 27 February 2023 à 06:33:28AM, 'Peter Vedal Utnes' via > pandoc-discuss a écrit : > > I just did some further testing, and replaced the sections that I would > > otherwise have removed with as many words and paragraphs, but no signs, > only > > "test test test" etc. The document then works. So I was wrong about the > length: > > It must be some character or symbol producing the error (only with > pandoc, not > > other EPUB converters). Any idea how to further isolate it, or how to > > circumvent with a pandoc command or template? > > > > Thanks for the help so far, Bernardo. > > > > > > > > mandag 27. februar 2023 kl. 15:23:57 UTC+1 skrev Peter Vedal Utnes: > > > > I am not sure what you mean by normalize in this context. I'll elaborate > in > > case this is what you mean: In the interest of removing variables that > > might interfere with troubleshooting, I have copied the text from > research > > papers (not just one, but a few), pasted it in notepad, copied and pasted > > it back into a new word-file (this is more thorough than "clear > > formatting"), ran this "pure" file through pandoc and I get the error. > If I > > then randomly shorten the file, the error disappears. This is not the > case > > for my "test" file, but only for research papers, which is baffling. I > can > > only assume that pandoc responds to something like a character or in-text > > references in particular contexts, or as was my original hypothesis, the > > number of lines or columns in the EPUB. > > > > mandag 27. februar 2023 kl. 15:17:10 UTC+1 skrev bernardov...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org: > > > > Have you tried editing the original research paper in some minor way > > (adding or removing a couple of characters) and then running it? This > > is a completely wild guess, but maybe the text in the file is getting > > normalized upon editing them, whereas the original research paper still > > contains the unedited, unnormalized text. > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:48 AM 'Peter Vedal Utnes' via pandoc-discuss > > wrote: > > > > I thank you for the suggestion. It is proving somewhat hard to > > (dis)confirm. I have made a testfile with just the word "test" > > pasted over and over again, with and without various formatting and > > with the same length or longer as the proper papers. This file > > consistently works. But when I attempt to do it with a regular > > research paper, it only works if I shorten it. Curiously, I can > > remove either half of the main text, or indeed sections here and > > there, randomly, and it works, but not with all of them present. I > > have combed it for special characters or tags, but cannot find > > any. > > > > mandag 27. februar 2023 kl. 13:49:58 UTC+1 skrev Bernardo C. D. A. > > Vasconcelos: > > > > I do not know the answer to this problem in particular, but > > perhaps it is worth checking the main document and the > > bibliography for invisible control characters (e.g. `\X{A0}`). > > They tend to cause all sorts of strange problems that result in > > random error msgs. > > > > On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 8:16:20 AM UTC-3 Peter Vedal > > Utnes wrote: > > > > We have a workflow in Open Journal Systems where we use > > Pandoc to convert word documents to EPUB, and then display > > them with an embedded EPUB app (Bibi). > > > > Our resulting EPUBs work fine with both debuggers and > > viewers like calibre. They work in Bibi, but only when they > > are reduced to a certain length. Whenever the files exceed > > approx 100 lines or 600 words, Bibi claims: > > > > TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading > > ‘getAttribute’) > > > > Meanwhile, the same documents works when converted to EPUB > > using other converters, or when I reduce the length > > (length, not size in bytes-- I've tried with graphics, > > still works). It suddenly works when I reduce the length by > > removing pure paragraph text, even though all the formatted > > elements (abstract, references, etc) are the same. > > > > I recognize that this problem is very specific to the > > interrelation pandoc <-> Bibi, but I'd be grateful for > > general troubleshooting suggestions. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Peter > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in > > the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit [1]https://groups.google.com/ > > d/topic/pandoc-discuss/hPUa1uWGS_k/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > To view this discussion on the web visit [2]https:// > > groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/ > > 4bd152b5-32f7-4f4c-9a9b-0d20afebea84n%40googlegroups.com. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "pandoc-discuss" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email > > to [3]pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > To view this discussion on the web visit [4] > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ > > pandoc-discuss/bc147d77-69c9-4e5d-82a6-e149f662a823n%40googlegroups.com. > > > > References: > > > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pandoc-discuss/hPUa1uWGS_k/unsubscribe > > [2] > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/4bd152b5-32f7-4f4c-9a9b-0d20afebea84n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > [3] mailto:pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > > [4] > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/bc147d77-69c9-4e5d-82a6-e149f662a823n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. 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