Construction of Omnibus files?

ThePage · 01-05-2012, 01:38 AM

Would like to be able to take 2-4 existing bookfiles and make omnibus volumes from them and/or restructure serials into single books.

I see no apparent method using the commands as given in Sigil 4 which I have been working with in correcting punctuation, etc. in existing books.

Serpentine · 01-05-2012, 04:46 AM

You just have to take epubs of the other books, extract the (x)html, make sure the filenames are unique then add them all to a single book.

Most likely also a good idea to use a single stylesheet and chop up the books into chapters once in Sigil.

signum · 01-06-2012, 06:31 PM

Do a Google search for a python program called "epubmerge.py" v. 4.1 by Jim Miller, Dec. 2011, available under the Apache 2.0 license. I've used it to merge several separate short stories into one epub. It seemed to get confused with space characters in file names, though, so you may have to rename your (x)html files with underscores in place of spaces to get it to work smoothly.

01-05-2012, 01:38 AM	#1
ThePage Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 4430 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chicagoland Device: Kindle 4, eBookwise & Literati	Construction of Omnibus files? Would like to be able to take 2-4 existing bookfiles and make omnibus volumes from them and/or restructure serials into single books. I see no apparent method using the commands as given in Sigil 4 which I have been working with in correcting punctuation, etc. in existing books. Last edited by ThePage; 01-05-2012 at 01:38 AM. Reason: adding tags

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01-05-2012, 04:46 AM	#2
Serpentine Evangelist Posts: 416 Karma: 1045911 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Device: Kindle 3	You just have to take epubs of the other books, extract the (x)html, make sure the filenames are unique then add them all to a single book. Most likely also a good idea to use a single stylesheet and chop up the books into chapters once in Sigil.

01-06-2012, 06:31 PM	#3
signum Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 64428 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Do a Google search for a python program called "epubmerge.py" v. 4.1 by Jim Miller, Dec. 2011, available under the Apache 2.0 license. I've used it to merge several separate short stories into one epub. It seemed to get confused with space characters in file names, though, so you may have to rename your (x)html files with underscores in place of spaces to get it to work smoothly.

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