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stumped · 05-06-2017, 02:09 AM

in this case, the retail epub version of Wilbur Smith - War Cry. no headers, no chapters, just 200 ish pages of text with scene breaks.

i was able to do it in a very convoluted way involving find the scene break style, regex it into having a h2 and add the text" chapter", then generate a new toc, then convert the book in calibre to get toc classes assigned, then regex those to extract a number to use as a chapter number

there is surely a slicker and sigil only way ? - a plug in ??
start point - a book with no chapters, just scenes- the entire story is in a single xhtml ( others just contain also by, dedications etc )
target : a book with numbered chapters and one xhtml file per chapter

05-06-2017, 02:09 AM	#1
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	best way to add numbered chapters to a book with no chapters in this case, the retail epub version of Wilbur Smith - War Cry. no headers, no chapters, just 200 ish pages of text with scene breaks. i was able to do it in a very convoluted way involving find the scene break style, regex it into having a h2 and add the text" chapter", then generate a new toc, then convert the book in calibre to get toc classes assigned, then regex those to extract a number to use as a chapter number there is surely a slicker and sigil only way ? - a plug in ?? start point - a book with no chapters, just scenes- the entire story is in a single xhtml ( others just contain also by, dedications etc ) target : a book with numbered chapters and one xhtml file per chapter