Highlighting text in an epub using Sigil and python

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The answer there suggests to read the Sigil Plugin Framework documentation. Unfortunately, I could not figure out how to do the following.

My workflow would be to search for the annotated string in the epub and enclose it in span tags:

smart description of a topic

would become

<span class="highlight">smart description of a topic<>

and I would include

span.highlight { background: #ccc }

in the CSS part of the ebook.

What parts of the BookContainer class should I use to implement this and how?

asked Jun 18, 2018 at 14:01

Gergely

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You might want to post your question in the official Sigil Plugin Development thread. You also might want to download and run the official test plugin. It contains all the code fragments that you'll need for your plugin.
– user4665
Jun 18, 2018 at 19:16

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