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Old 05-12-2011, 06:30 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
The problem with merging is that every book has a different layout and usually stylesheets. That makes them very difficult to merge, especially automatically.
Actually, that shouldn't be a problem, because the stylesheets can be kept separate. All files can be kept separate with a directory structure like this:

Code:
OEBPS
  Book1
    css
    text
    images
  Book2
    css
    text
    images
Text files in Book1/text would link CSS files in Book1/css, while text files in Book2/text would link CSS files in Book2/css.

It's merging the OPF and NCX files that can be more problematic, but it should be possible to do something about that too.

Of course, a "seamless" merge, where it is not obvious that there were originally several books and all styles and filenames are unified is much more difficult (aka virtually impossible) to automate.
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