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Old 05-30-2010, 11:50 AM   #1
John Everett
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Automating splitting at Chapter Breaks

Hi folks.

I am a new arrival, and new to Sigil, having used Calibre to make 100+ epub ebooks thus far.

When my iPad arrived finally, I found that that the epubs did not look as good as some others (more professionally made, I presumed), with lots of letters losing their lowest part (descenders), which got transferred to the top line of the next page. Messy.

This problem has vanished when compiling the same strict XHTML source files in Sigil.

But ...

Unless I am missing a trick, I have to hit the Add Chapter Break button manually at the start of each chapter, and this adds a new file nicely. OK when there are not too many chapters, but the next book I want to compile has over 70 short chapters.

My chapter headings in the XHTML source are all enclosed in <h2> tags. What I would love is an automation of my manual work: every <h2> tag (could equally easily be <h3>) gets the Chapter Break stuff added by just pressing a button, and the file splitting just happens while I watch.

Any thoughts, anyone?

John
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