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Old 11-18-2022, 12:53 AM   #7
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Thanks for the help and ideas everybody, [...]
You're welcome.

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Sigil, [...], at first it was a little challenging figuring out what XHTML corresponded to what story since they're usually just named 001, 002, etc.
One trick I do right in the beginning is create human-readable filenames:

Before:
  • index_split_001.xhtml
  • index_split_002.xhtml
  • index_split_003.xhtml
  • index_split_004.xhtml
  • [...]

After:
  • titlepage.xhtml
  • copyright.xhtml
  • Introduction.xhtml
  • Chapter01.xhtml
  • Chapter02.xhtml
  • [...]

How to Mass Rename Files?

In Sigil, you can easily do this by:

1) Go to the Book Browser along the left side.

2) Shift+Left-Click to highlight which files you want to change.

3) Right-Click > Rename.

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4) In the "Rename files Starting at:" box, type in:
  • Chapter01.xhtml

5) Press OK.

Sigil will auto-rename the highlighted files from:
  • Chapter01.xhtml
  • [...]
  • Chapter99.xhtml

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Now when you run the Reports, it'll be so much easier to understand:

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but then I discovered I can double click on a file and it shows up in the preview pane (lol I have way more experience editing books with Calibre than Sigil).

Thanks again.
There's a lot more tricks with Reports you can do too.

I wrote about many just a few months ago:

and in Post #14, I linked to a lot more!

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The Reports are AMAZING. Definitely take lots of advantage of those.

You can also use them to list all links in a book, making it very easy to:
Human-readable filenames also make understanding links in footnotes/TOCs/Indexes way easier too.

Much easier to know where this link points:
  • <a href="../Text/Chapter001.xhtml#footnote1>

compared to:
  • <a href="../Text/index_split_006.xhtml#footnote1>

A few more renaming tricks are listed in my posts here:

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