Welcome to Michèle’s ChapterTitle plugin. It replaces a one line chapter title with two lines. Instead of doing
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By default, chapter titles get displayed on one line. When dealing with numbered chapters, the outcome is something like:
Chapter 7 – Image Processing
I prefer to split the chapter’s title into two parts: the chapter’s number on one line, the chapter’s name on the next line, as follows:
Chapter 7
Image Processing
The ChapterTitle task cycles through the book’s chapter; it removes the chapter’s name from the first line and adds a new line with it. Since doing so expands text, a potential last page overflow condition may rise. The task checks for this and adds a page if necessary.
Consider the code provided in my book to be minimalist code; it opens the door to customizing new chapter pages.
Please note that the above is provided as a ChapterTitleReadme.txt file in the HOMEDIR/PluginData upon running the plugin. A dialog box displays the HOMEDIR full path.
You will find source code in my book so that you could roll your own ChapterTitle plugin.
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