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Originally Posted by JimLL
Again I ask, does that mean you are supposed to simply leave everything blank? You already insisted they are sensible but didn't answer my question.
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It means that you should leave them as they are. If they're blank, leave them blank. If they're already filled in, leave them that way. Note that I said they "
will work well enough most of the time". They won't always do what is required, and it looks like your case is one where the defaults won't do what is required. They still make a good starting point, but you'll have to make some changes.
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Originally Posted by JimLL
That demo must be a great marketing aid, but just skims the surface and is not a look up.
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In your original post, you asked for something "
that gives you the general basics of using Calibre". I think the video does that. To my mind, the general basics are adding books, organising them, and sending them to your e-book reader.
As it happens, what you're trying to do is one of the more difficult operations, and one that is likely to require more in-depth knowledge.
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Originally Posted by JimLL
When I found out that all this stuff is apparently HTML at root, I decided to try going through HTML (I went through the .odts and .docs and put H1 status on all my chapter headings before exporting as HTML) then using Calibre to convert the HTML into .epub and/or .mobi.
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I don't know XPath myself (never had to use it), so I'm going by the
XPath tutorial in the Calibre manual.
Make sure you convert from the HTML files that you have modified to have H1 chapter headings
In the conversion dialogue, go to the "Structure Detection" page and replace the text in the "Detect chapters at (XPath expression)" box with: