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Agama · 10-18-2012, 03:33 AM

You could use Markdown before conversion to identify formatting/structuring. Heuristics can then be switched off. Calibre is fully Markdown aware. I realise that this doesn't answer your issue directly but if you use plain text sources a lot then you may find Markdown generally useful.

Full details can be found at http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
(You don't need to download Markdown, just understand the syntax - which is very simple.)

For a quick test:

Identify chapters in your book by starting each chapter line with the prefix "## " (hash-hash-space) then convert using:

Structure Detection

Insert page breaks before = //*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']

Table of Contents

Level 1 Toc = //h:h2

TXT Input

Paragraph style = "off" and Formatting style = "markdown".

(Textile formatting could also be used as calibre is also Textile aware. It's a bit more complicated than Markdown, but more flexible.)

10-18-2012, 03:33 AM	#2
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	You could use Markdown before conversion to identify formatting/structuring. Heuristics can then be switched off. Calibre is fully Markdown aware. I realise that this doesn't answer your issue directly but if you use plain text sources a lot then you may find Markdown generally useful. Full details can be found at http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ (You don't need to download Markdown, just understand the syntax - which is very simple.) For a quick test: Identify chapters in your book by starting each chapter line with the prefix "## " (hash-hash-space) then convert using: Structure Detection Insert page breaks before = //[name()='h1' or name()='h2'] Table of Contents* Level 1 Toc = //h:h2 TXT Input Paragraph style = "off" and Formatting style = "markdown". (Textile formatting could also be used as calibre is also Textile aware. It's a bit more complicated than Markdown, but more flexible.)