How to automatically create chapter titles and breaks in an epub file?

[memenow]

I have a big file that is separated into categories with an underscore beneath each category name. The file is constantly changing and there are 80 categories. It is a plain text file. I would like to make it so that each category name is a separate chapter in an epub file. I would also like to make sure each chapter name is the title of the chapter. Is there a way to do this automatically with Calibre? Maybe some regex magic? For example, I would like the chapter titles for the categories below to be: Fruit, Vegetables, Herbs. And I would like it to be parsed automatically (one way to do this would probably involve recognizing the underscores in a regex expression). How can I do this?


Fruit
________
Apples
Bananas

Vegetables
____________
Cucumbers
Zucchini

Herbs
_____
thyme
cayenne

[theducks]

Originally Posted by memenow

I have a big file that is separated into categories with an underscore beneath each category name. The file is constantly changing and there are 80 categories. It is a plain text file. I would like to make it so that each category name is a separate chapter in an epub file. I would also like to make sure each chapter name is the title of the chapter. Is there a way to do this automatically with Calibre? Maybe some regex magic? For example, I would like the chapter titles for the categories below to be: Fruit, Vegetables, Herbs. And I would like it to be parsed automatically (one way to do this would probably involve recognizing the underscores in a regex expression). How can I do this?


Fruit
________
Apples
Bananas

Vegetables
____________
Cucumbers
Zucchini

Herbs
_____
thyme
cayenne

Use Sigil (Where you ca see the code and see the test results before you save ('Discard' is my overworked friend )

The Keyword you are looking for is 'markup'
IMHO, if you are going to do that much work... Do it the Sigil (and REGEX) way: (?sm)<p (.+?)</p>\s+<hr

[jackie_w]

You could add some simple 'Markdown' to your txt file like this (note the #'s):

##Fruit
________
Apples
Bananas

##Vegetables
____________
Cucumbers
Zucchini

##Herbs
_____
thyme
cayenne

and set Convert - TXTInput - Formatting style to markdown