Inserting page breaks in that way will mean over 3000 edits, in which case I think it would be more logical to copy the tables into Word to generate the chapter footnote. If possible I would really like to avoid 3000+ manual edits.

My data consists of 4 cvs files, each containing about 30 000 lines (chapter, id1, id2, text).


some ASCIIart explaining my goal:

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|file1 |file2 ||file3 |file4 |
|line1 |line1 ||line1 |line1 |
|-----|-----||-----|-----|
|file1 |file2 ||file3 |file4 |
|line2 |line2 ||line2 |line2 |
|-----|-----||-----|-----|
|file1 |file2 ||file3 |file4 |
|line3 |line3 ||line3 |line3 |
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