[Booki-dev] [Booki and Objavi Development] #203: Feature Request: Chapter Splitting

[adam hyde]

nice feature request James...changing it to the milestone "booki the
musical (feature requests)"

adam


On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 20:35 +0000, Booki and Objavi Development wrote:
> #203: Feature Request: Chapter Splitting
> -------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  jdsimmons    |       Owner:  adam, aco, douglas
>      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new               
>  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  before we die     
> Component:  Booki        |    Keywords:  EPUB, chapters    
> -------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
>  I am thinking about cleaning up the EPUBs for my contributions and
>  reloading them on archive.org.  I have been using Sigil to make EPUBs, and
>  one killer feature it has is the ability to easily split a book into
>  chapters.  You put your cursor at the place where you want to split, push
>  a button, and your XHTML file is now two XHTML files.
> 
>  The treatment of EPUB chapters on IA is kind of lackluster.  They give you
>  one chapter for the title page one one for the rest of the book.  Another
>  thing Sigil does is to put anything with an H1 tag into the TOC.  So how
>  about this: Let me download my EPUB from IA to Booki, then I'll make H1's
>  for all the chapter headings.  Let there be a function in Booki that
>  splits the XHTML files when it comes to an H1 and let it make the contents
>  of the H1 the chapter name in the TOC.
> 

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