A Suggested Feature for ebook-edit.exe

[pete6055]

Is it possible to add the Structure Detection dialogue to EBOOK-EDIT.EXE? I use the editor as a standalone product most of the time, much as I do Sigil.

It would be handy if I could insert page-breaks before an Xpath expression within the editor proper. I might add a new box to the Create ToC from Xpath dialogue, if another button is inconvenient.

Thanks...

[jackie_w]

To some extent it's there already. If you open an epub and one of its content html files, you can right-click in its code view area and choose 'Split at multiple locations'.

Unless something has changed recently, I don't know of a way to split every html file in the whole epub in one pass.

Or, I suppose, if you don't want to actually split the files but only want to force the reading device to do a page break, then using Regex to insert a set of dummy paragraphs
<p class="breakhere"></p>
plus something like
p.breakhere {page-break-before:always}
in the css file, should work across the whole epub.

[BetterRed]

@jackie_w - that's two things I learnt from you today, the other was ATM - Automatic Teller Machine Asynchronous Transfer Mode At The Money - aah - At The Moment

I only knew about spitting in the Preview pain, momentarily I thought you'd mistyped, luckily I checked before embarrassing myself - yet again

BR

[mrmikel]

There is a way to split at all locations at once using x-path. Right click in editing window, split at multiple locations.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@jackie_w - that's two things I learnt from you today

We Poms aim to please

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I only knew about spitting in the Preview pain

No, please, this is a civilised forum!

Originally Posted by mrmikel

There is a way to split at all locations at once using x-path. Right click in editing window, split at multiple locations.

Isn't that what I already said in post #2? But it won't help for splitting the whole epub in one pass, will it?

[mrmikel]

If you tell it to split at every chapter heading, won't that do or am I missing something?

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

If you tell it to split at every chapter heading, won't that do or am I missing something?

Last time I tried it was current html file only. Which works well if you've just imported your whole book as a single html file, but can be a bit time consuming if your epub is already split, but in all the wrong places.

I suppose you could try using Merge files to join everything back into a single file before trying 'Split at multiple locations'. I'll try that next time I have a badly split epub.

[mrmikel]

The merge works pretty well and doesn't take over long if you don't have over 30 files or so. Then you can split them where they ought to be.

My problem with the merge is to make sure I do it consistently so things merge in the right order and so that there isn't unintentional overwriting. After the 20th merge I am inclined to get a little rummy. That is a reason for a backup before which I always advocate but don't always remember to do if I have been at it for HOURS.