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Old 07-27-2023, 12:13 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I suspect the thread being referred to is: Mass find and replace for chapter numbers, especially message #5 in the thread.



Baby duckling syndrome?

this is getting somewhat confusing and insulting

for the record
1. i created the thread, but after 2 days there was no posted help
2. so I went searching and found the infamous/ inefficient/bad solution which I used successfully, and partially quoted, to help anyone else searching for similar help.

3. sometime after that , the cavalry arrived with various smart solutions

4.but there was also one person querying my posted code so i posted more, trying to explain what I had already done, step by step ( note: past tense, already done, before any advice got posted - only to get accused of ignoring the help and of promoting an outdated, poor quality solution


this baby duckling, however, still flounders on" what it the elegant solution to generating non existent incremental chapter NUMBERS and getting those into the code & the toc"
[ without using a plug in]

the smart help seems more focussed on how to split one file into separate chapters using sigil not calibre, and on ridiculing the only solution that google search was able to find for me, but not on a smarter way to conjure up 144 chapter numbers out of this air

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