Splitting XHTML eBook Files in SIGIL

Video 4 Creating your individual pages for EPUB in SIGIL…

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UPDATE 1/2012

SIGIL NOW OFFERS A BETTER WAY TO SPLIT PAGES. See: Splitting Pages Using Sigil’s SGF Page Break feature

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Now that you have your EPUB in SIGIL, we need to split it into individual XHTML pages. This process is simple but tedious. It is also a little more complex to explain verbally, so I recommend you review the video as you work.

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In this segment, we will take your MyBook.epub file and split it into individual pages. (a requirement for EPUB format). If you are thinking you want a KINDLE ebook version the EPUB will work as well (with one minor modification), as we will show in a later video.

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1. Watch the Video (Time: 4:08 minutes)
2. Open MyBook.epub in SIGIL
3. Place your curser in front of each section, starting with Copyright Information (the cover will be the first page.)
4. Click the “CB” (Create Break) icon in the menu
5. Place your curser in front of the <h1> tag and click the “CB” icon for all of your chapters.
   Do this until you have one “chapter” on each page
6. Save your Work

TIP: If your cover art doesn’t pull in with your file, you can add the cover image by right clicking the “Images” folder and choosing “Add Existing Items…” (Refer to our FormattingTemplate.xhtml file for the correct HTML code to pull the image into the cover.xhtml file.)

TIP: Scene Breaks: If you have coding, such as <br clear=“ALL” />, this code will break the EPUB file and it will not validate. To add scene breaks within your work, you need to use a paragraph space tag <p>&nbsp;</p>.

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You are now ready to move onto VIDEO 5 Renaming Files and Setting Semantics in SIGIL