[Old Thread] calibre detects chapters, doesn't add to TOC

[theducks]

Originally Posted by AlisaC

I'm having the same problem, and I didn't understand what you asked Corey Langner to do. What do you mean by "content outside html tags"? I've seen multiple questions about this and the answers are all so technical, I'm like, yeah, whatever. Maybe I'll click "no toc" ...

Thanks -- Alisa

Please follow Walt's advice (in the future, as this thread is now near the top of the list for now).

In (x)HTML code: there are naked words that are not wrapped in the proper HTML tags.

<blockquote> <p>words to show.</p></blockquote>

Blockquote expects a inner set of tags
<br /> must be inside a tag pair, not outside of it .

Mis-matched pairs are a No No <p> ... </P>
or

<p><b>not bold done right</p></b>

Conversion from one form to another is not always problem free. 95% it will run fine.
The other 4.9% you need to help it along
.01% of the time

[AlisaC]

Oh, that was great. Thank you for the link. Even though it is an old question, as new people do ebooks, it will keep popping up.

So I changed the <p class="chapter"> headings I was using to:

<h3 class="calibre6">
<a name="ch02" class="calibre9" id="ch02">CHAPTER 2</a>
<br class="calibre3"/><br class="calibre3"/>

changing chapter numbers, of course, and it worked beautifully in mobi. I didn't get a toc in Nook, though.

I'm wondering, if I want the "author bio" and "copyright" pages in the toc, what would I put in the code instead of the a name="ch02"? Even if I don't get a toc in nook, that would change the little "banner" headings at the top of the page to match the author bio, etc.

Thanks so much!

Alisa

[AlisaC]

Actually, I did get a toc in Nook, but it doesn't have dedication, etc.