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Originally Posted by Fitz Frobozz
Are you retaining separate stylesheets for each book just because it's easier that way, or because you prefer to style the books differently? My plan has been to use pretty much the same styling for all the books using my own style guide, which is based on elements from the source book, previous editions of said book, general best practices, and my own preferences.
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The separate stylesheets are due to stylesheets often being different even with books from the same publisher and/or author. It was just easier to stick with EpubMerge's approach than to try to match the stylesheets in each book that are going into the omnibus. This approach also allows you to have identical filenames in different directories rather than renaming them. The quick and dirty approach.
I have gone the uniform stylesheets approach for a couple of omnibus editions I put together for one author. Since there were class names that were reused between the books with different information, I located those and renamed them as needed and then merged the stylesheets into a single stylesheet. Redo this effort for the images. After this an import and rename of each book's text files and finally removing any duplicate images, classes, etc. Many thanks to Kovid Goyal, KevinH and diapdealer for the tools supplied with Sigil and calibre's e-book editor that allowed me to automate much of the process.