[alford]

I’m coming back to Calibre after doing a couple of books for my own use 4-5 years ago. This time for a longer book I thought I’d try merging multiple input documents to make the final output. I managed to work out how to do html but the only way seemed to have the input documents processed into a zip file. I work very iteratively and I seemed to have to do this every time I wanted a new output so it doesn’t suit. I looked at MS Word Master Documents but that did things I didn’t like in changing documents and I didn’t seem to be able to process the master document into Calibre. So for now I’ve ended with using Libre Office Writer. There the Master document can take the separate documents in different formats, eg doc, docx, odt and others – even different formats feeding into the same master document. It’s then simple to export a single document that I can process in Calibre. Using the same name for the exported document means nothing changes in the Calibre setup. That’s just how I have previously done it with a single input document so this is my preferred way to go forward.

So is there anything I have missed re html or word documents or are there other suggestions.