Ray:
Over at DTP, you said:
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Originally Posted by Ray Tayek
mobi creator and calibre don't seem to have the problem that sigil does.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Should I infer that how we got here is that you took Word docs, stuck them in MBP Creator, got a prc, and then tried to make an ePUB from that? Is that how we got here...with the 50 html chapters and the 500 images?
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we did start with word 2007 docs and docx's. these were all saved as filtered web pages.
then i use mobi to make an opf.
using dreamweaver and other tools, i have removed all of the style, class, name and id stuff from the html except for the authors headings and links.
i used dreamweaver to convert the html files into xhtml 1.1. these all validate at w3c validator.
if i make a prc with mobi, it has all of the diagrams.
if i add a toc to calibre and conver to epub, it has all of the diagrams.
if i put the epub from calibre through epubcheck, all the errors are ones that were introduced by calibre.
so that's why i though that sigil might be broken.
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Okay...something's pinging around on the inside of my brain that I missed, here: if you take the html from inside of MobiPocket, and slap that bad boy into Sigil...what happens? I kind of see what you did; I used to flail around at these different things when I started out, and I spent a lot of time doing it.
IF you actually stuck all that filtered html into MobiPocket, I'd start there. I realize you have an html TOC issue that you're trying to address, but you could shortcut it a bit by making the TOC in MBP Creator, and then using all that code it shoves out, in html, the toc.ncx and the OPF in Sigil--but most importantly, for THIS five minutes, you should have one big long html file, with non-repetitive image pointers, to shove into Sigil. (n.b. - you could even "cheat" and just copy & paste the html toc code right out of MBP Creator or preview it and steal the source and then make a new "page" in Sigil and the links should all be right, I
think...this is a bit backwards than how I work, which is ePUB first, mobi second.)
(Me--I'd edit the html first, and place the Sigil Chapter Markers before every Chapter heading, so that you don't have to do THAT one at a time and you can split that sucker ASAP. But I'm a serious NoteTab Pro Junkie, so...that might just be me, but I'm a total regex Ho.)
Jam that 50 chapters and 500 images into Sigil (go get a cup of coffee). Then save as ePUB; split; save again; and see if THAT dog hunts for you. I think, but am not sure, that might work--
but it should either work or not fast enough to be worth trying.
I'm actually interested in this. Can you keep us posted?
Hitch