07-17-2010, 11:21 AM | #1 |
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Feature Request - Merging of ePubs
I've got a feature request that would be useful when creating an anthology. Being able to merge an existing ePub file into the open ePub file.
Suppose you're creating an anthology of award nominated short stories. You've gotten the original stories from a variety of sources, and used a different program (Calibre?) to convert them all into ePub. Now you'd like to create one book with all of the stories, and would like to not spend too much time editing it. It seems to me that the easiest way to do so would be a merge facility. (And a different feature request - being able to create links within a document without having to edit the html code. This is an elaboration of the requests to be able to create foot notes easily.) In the meantime, I'm really enjoying Sigil, so keep it up! |
07-25-2010, 09:49 AM | #2 |
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Merging epubs directly would be problematic. Which <title> metadata should take precedence for the final epub? How about <author>? I'm not sure how you could solve this.
On the other hand, merging epub file contents is something you can do easily with Sigil today. Let's say you have epub A open in Sigil, and you want to merge it with the contents of epub B. Simply unzip epub B and in the Book Browser select "Add existing items" and select all the XHTML files from epub B. This will alsopick up all the CSS and image files that those XHTMLs reference. The epub B XHTMLs will be appended after the epub A XHTMLs in the Text folder. Presto, contents merged. |
07-25-2010, 11:56 AM | #3 |
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None. An ePUB can have several <title> and <author> (well, <creator>) tags, so you can just have them all. At least for <creator> that seems the most logical.
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07-25-2010, 12:14 PM | #4 | |
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07-27-2010, 12:06 PM | #5 | |
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(And, I suppose, ask you to rename the inserted file if it has the same name as an existing file within the ePub file.) The point would be to do as much within Sigil as possible, rather than requiring preprocessing by the user. |
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07-28-2010, 06:18 AM | #6 |
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Maybe opening several instances of Sigil, each with a different ePUB file, and drag&drop between them?
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07-29-2010, 05:29 PM | #7 | |
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EDIT: I used the "unzip the old file and upload the existing items" trick and it was spiffy. Thank you, Valloric, for turning me on to this, it's saved me no end of brain-damage. Hitch Last edited by Hitch; 07-30-2010 at 06:37 PM. Reason: Yee-ha, learned me sumpin' new... |
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