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mtrahan · 04-23-2011, 05:06 PM

I'm still working on the same ePub I was talking about a couple days ago—and thus still trying to learn a thing or two about the ideal workflow I should stick to for the next books I format.

This book was split in 17 files when I first opened it. After reformating a lot of things, I created an 18th file to put the original endnotes (that weren't in the original ePub file—I'm doing this by hand). I managed to correctly create over a hundred of those endnotes, thanks to the information I found on this forum.

The original edition of this book (end of 18th century) was in six volumes, so I now want to mark the change of volume in the ePub version I'm doing. So I added a "h2.sectiontitle" class in the stylesheet, where I specified "page-break-before: always;" so that when a new volume starts, it starts on a new page.

But then I read around here that the only way to make a page-break on certain reader, like iPad, is to actually split the files at the correct place... Is that true? So the CSS I did will have no effect (the "page-break-before: always;" I mean)?

If that is true, it means I have to resplit the files in order to have the beginning of a section to start on a new page. Unfortunately, after linking all those endnotes, I don't think I will split the files differently, as I guess I will have to re-do all the linking correctly after? Am I mistaken? Or does Sigil re-adjust all the endnotes correctly when files are re-split? I would guess not. Would be too good to be true.

So, is there an easy way to split the files differently without breaking all the endnotes?

I guess the next time I will see that the file splitting/chaptering is correctly done before going to the endnotes step.

Thanks in advance for your help.

04-23-2011, 05:06 PM	#1
mtrahan Colonel Mustard Posts: 90 Karma: 1426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Montreal Device: iPhone 6, Kindle Paperwhite 2, iPad 2	File splitting and endnotes links I'm still working on the same ePub I was talking about a couple days ago—and thus still trying to learn a thing or two about the ideal workflow I should stick to for the next books I format. This book was split in 17 files when I first opened it. After reformating a lot of things, I created an 18th file to put the original endnotes (that weren't in the original ePub file—I'm doing this by hand). I managed to correctly create over a hundred of those endnotes, thanks to the information I found on this forum. The original edition of this book (end of 18th century) was in six volumes, so I now want to mark the change of volume in the ePub version I'm doing. So I added a "h2.sectiontitle" class in the stylesheet, where I specified "page-break-before: always;" so that when a new volume starts, it starts on a new page. But then I read around here that the only way to make a page-break on certain reader, like iPad, is to actually split the files at the correct place... Is that true? So the CSS I did will have no effect (the "page-break-before: always;" I mean)? If that is true, it means I have to resplit the files in order to have the beginning of a section to start on a new page. Unfortunately, after linking all those endnotes, I don't think I will split the files differently, as I guess I will have to re-do all the linking correctly after? Am I mistaken? Or does Sigil re-adjust all the endnotes correctly when files are re-split? I would guess not. Would be too good to be true. So, is there an easy way to split the files differently without breaking all the endnotes? I guess the next time I will see that the file splitting/chaptering is correctly done before going to the endnotes step. Thanks in advance for your help.