Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Jones
Ah, interesting.. I'd heard/read about this those k-epub's and the corresponding Calibre plugin. I'll give that a try if all else fails.
I do have a copy of Sigil installed on another system but I've only used it for a couple of hours to address one very specific need.
I'm a little unclear about what you mean by merging/splitting epubs. When you say "files" do you mean the html files inside the zipped collection..? What I mean is that I use Vim for editing and if I point Vim to a Project Gutenberg epub, I'm first presented with a list of files and directories with the mimetype file right at the top, naturally, and then a directory whose name is a number, presumably the PG reference of the book in their system.. something like 14324/ or 22315/ for instance. This directory contains a number of .htm files (and optionally .jpg's or .png's).
Do you mean you use Sigil to rearrange the contents of these files so that you end up with one .html file per chapter..?
Would that also address this annoying problem I have noticed where for no good reason you occasionally have a page with a bunch of blank lines at the bottom, even though you're not at the end of a chapter.. even not at the end of a paragraph for that matter..?
Is there any hands-on documentation that explains how you would go about doing this merging/splitting..?
|
The end of a file is treated as the end of page. So if the chapters are not aligned with the files, you get some rather odd page breaks. Admittedly, Adobe's Reader Mobile renderer can also split pages at some odd spots itself.
You can check Sigil's on-line help at
http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/...roduction.html. There is also a MobileRead forum which does offer some help.
What I've had to do on several occasions is to select all the chapter files and then right-click and merge. Then go back through and split at the chapter markers. A bit of pain but it does give you a much better looking result than mindlessly splitting files at fixed file sizes which seems to be popular with some publishers. So yes, this does give 1 chapter/1 file.
Unfortunately at this time, Sigil's development is pretty much on life support and Google's changes to it's Google Code are not going to help.
Regards,
David