[Feature Request] Automatically find chapter in 'Edit book'

[WishingStar]

For books with no Table of Contents (ToC), Calibre has some nifty options: generating ToC from headings, links, files, and XPath. The problem arises when certain books are just badly formatted, or when you're combining a bunch of webpages or articles into a book for easier reading on your eReader. In certain cases, you want to create a ToC from a single html file where everything is dumped as plain text.

It would help if calibre could create a ToC from lines in the html that start with the word 'Chapter' or a number. Even if this causes the addition of some extra entries, it would still save a ton of time, rather than having to manually navigate through the file to label chapter beginnings.

Thanks for this amazing program, and I hope you consider adding this feature.

Best,
-WS

[Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)]

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/xpath.html#selecting-by-tag-content

You can already do this. Like most advanced, heavy-duty fixups, this
will require some elbow grease.

The support forums at http://mobileread.com have lots of good
information on utilizing this, so there is a good chance someone has
already written about the exact case you have, and if not there are a
large number of very helpful people who can guide you through the process.

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