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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
I had the same issue with chapter numbers in my ebooks and solved the issue by using OpenOffice.org (OO.o). Rather than using manual chapter numbering or chapter breaks, I used OO.o's Fields function to create the chapter numbers. I created a field called "Chapter" and made the first "Chapter" equal to "1" and inserted the field into my ebook.
With each subsequent chapter I made "Chapter" equal to "Chapter+1." It made easy to correctly number the chapters, and if I inserted a new chapter the subsequent chapters would automatically be correctly renumbered.
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Alas, the software I used originally lacked that level of capability.
Of course, I probably would have still translated to XML even if it did, because the custom software gives me a lot of control over the final markup that would have been hard to deal with otherwise:
- Drop caps are carefully positioned based on the letter and the text after it, complete with cut-ins (shape-outside), where applicable.
- "Special" pages (dedication, epigraph, title, verso/copyright, part separator) are SVG pages with a fixed layout.
- Cover art image size differs—the EPUB has a lower-resolution cover because of iBooks resolution limitations, whereas the Kindle has a higher-resolution cover so that it will look better after Amazon's kindlegen tool scales it down (grr).
- The Kindle edition uses very different markup to improve compatibility with KF7 devices (but resulting in something that can't pass EPUB validation).
and so on.
