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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I cannot think of a good user-interface way to do 'New Book per X Sections'. And it strikes me as a good way to shoot yourself in the foot when you miss seeing the one story that has 3 sections instead of 2.
I will look into whether 'New Book per TOC Entry' is feasible.
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I have been trying to come up with something for this as well. My use-case is that when I split an omnibus of a series, I want to put all the chapter for each book in separate books, plus some of the frontmatter and backmatter. Exactly what goes into each book depends, but I usually keep the omnibus title page and cover in all of them. With the current interface, I have to do this once for each book, selecting the common sections then each of the chapters for that book. That's not to much work, but, being able to do it on hit would be good.
Your mention of the TOC does give me an idea. Most of the omnibuses I have split have a multi-level TOC. The frontmatter will be at one level, the title page for each book at the same level, and then the chapters in the book at the next level down. Being able to split the omnibus by the individual book title pages would get somewhere.
And thinking of that, you could allow selecting a range or set of files/chapters and specify which book to put them in. Select the common files and "Add to all books", then select the files for each book and set which book it goes into. For simplicity, you could just use "{title} - Book n" and let the user sort it out later. And I think I'd be tempted to not display the metadata editor for each book. Just add them with the default title and let the user fix the metadata later.
How's that? The hard work is all done, the implementation is easy!
And no, I couldn't keep a straight face while typing that last line
