Making chapter from textfiles

[franc]

Hello

is it possible to define chapters when I convert a textfile to epub?
I only found some XPath definitions and html-tags to find chapters, but not the possibility to define some RegEx to find a chapter.

E.g. I have this:

*** chapter one ***

blablablablabla
blabla
and so on

++++++++++++++++

*** chapter two ***

blabla bla blabla
blabla and so on...

++++++++++++++++

Either I could find the + or better the *** to define a chapter.
Best would be some:

\*\*\* ([-\w\x20()]+) \*\*\*

to find the chapters name (\1) and tell it to calibre.
Is something like this possible for textfiles?

I tried it with html-files (zip-files for calibre only) and I could define the chapters, but I stopped, when I noticed, calibre isn't able to detect linebreakes (br), e.g.:

blablabla<br />blablabla<br />blablabla<br />

is after conversion to epub just:

blablabla blablabla blablabla

and not:

blablabla
blablabla
blablabla

frank

[ldolse]

Use Markdown or Textile to mark your chapter headings, e.g.

Title
======

## Chapter 1
## Chapter 2

Then change your chapter xpath under structure detection to use only h1/h2 tags:

//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']

If you don't want to edit the text files give heuristics a shot, it will find them automatically for a lot of cases.

[theducks]

Calibre normally looks for headings the begin with:
Chapter
Book
Section
Part

See 'Structure Detection' in Conversion or Preferences Common options