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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I agree that it's not nearly as easy as epub merging was. But I think a useful tool can still be had from it for basic splitting.
My vision right now is to offer a list of 'split lines'--the beginning of each file and/or each TOC entry--and let the user click and choose which they want to include. I agree that trying to automatically decide where to split is beyond complex.
Then the program includes only those files (or partial files), scans them for included css & images, writes only those files, manifest and TOC. TOC gets flattened along the way (that way lies madness).
I have that much working in CLI already. (Still need to fix internal URLs, worry about cover image, etc.) I plan to offer & collect metadata using calibre's edit metadata dialog, similar to EpubMerge.
That sounds to me like a useful tool because to do it manually would take a number of steps in Sigil to split/delete files, clean up TOC, plus Modify ePub to remove unused img/css files.
People who are looking for absolutely perfect epubs will still need to hand edit, but I think this will be useful.
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Can you make your tool do an after clean? So say someone uses Sigil to split things. Instead of then having to sort out things that will need to be sorted like broken links and such, ePubSplit be used to do just the cleaning up?