.mokuro not including cover pages

[zenithilia]

I tried using mokuro on a bunch of manga and it always ignored the cover pages, as the json files exist but they're not... added? inside of the html and .mokuro. It does not create any problem with the html files (just the cover(s) missing), but it does create issues with the online reader shifting all the texts a bunch of pages behind.

I have no idea if I'm doing something wrong, if it's a bug or if it's a normal behaviour of the app.

[kha-white]

Could you upload an example? Can be just a few pages for which it fails.

[zenithilia]

I did some more tests today and I think I found what goes wrong. When the cover is named differently than the pages, like "!Cover_xxx", the cover page(s) seemed to get shifted to the end, which does not cause problems in the HTML version, but it does cause all transcriptions to be shifted by the amount of cover pages, as the .mokuro considers the covers to be at the end but the online reader puts the images in their normal order. If all the pages follow a normal naming order, the problem seems to disappear and everything works as expected.

An example where the problem happens




The same example with all the files following the same naming scheme

If needed, here are the files for this example

I don't know if it's a bug or not, and if it is I don't know if it can be fixed or not, but hopefully this could answer people who'd run into the same problem

[kha-white]

Mismatch is caused by mokuro reader, I created an issue in its repository.

On mokuro side, sorting is done with natsort library, which by default puts special characters after numbers, in this case putting the cover page after normal pages. natsort.os_sorted on Windows sorts the same way as Windows Explorer, so ! would be before numbers, but I don't like how the results will be different depending on the OS. Not sure what the best solution would be here, if using special characters for cover pages is more common than maybe a special case for sorting is needed.