Is there a way to prevent Calibre adding to the TOC upon conversion? - Page 2

jpaulm · 02-22-2011, 01:11 PM

Hi @jackie_w. Thanks for the feedback, but I don't know what gave you the impression I was going epub to epub - I just always go from a zip file to epub! I have tried everything you and the others suggested, but I keep getting extra entries in my TOC, apparently generated by OOo cross-references to chapters. So it seems Calibre doesn't give me a way to get total control of my TOC generation... Assuming this is the case, do you know what its criteria are, or should I just keep trying things until the extra entries disappear?! TIA

kovidgoyal · 02-22-2011, 01:27 PM

@jpaulm: Your zip file contains a TOC with the extra entries. Remove it and you wont see them in the output either.

jpaulm · 02-22-2011, 02:09 PM

Hi Kovid, that's the weird thing - there is no sign of it. Unless winzip is somehow not displaying it... content.opf has the following:
<spine toc="ncx">
<itemref idref="html"/>
</spine>
but no sign of toc or ncx... There is a file toc.ncx in the epub zip, which I can modify, but I have to do that every time I change the source html file... Can you help?!

kovidgoyal · 02-22-2011, 02:18 PM

TOCs are specified in ncx files, or via guide element in the OPF, look for those in the zip file.

jpaulm · 02-22-2011, 02:48 PM

All I can see is the following in the OPF:

Quote:

No sign of the referenced file - is it being built on the fly? I can send you the OPF file if you like...

Thanks.

jpaulm · 03-17-2011, 02:46 PM

Thanks, Kovid, this seems to have been fixed in the latest version of Calibre (0.7.49). No more having to prune the extra entries off the toc - great! Thanks again!

jpaulm · 03-17-2011, 03:09 PM

Sorry everyone, I was wrong! I converted (my previous, modified) epub to epub by mistake!

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02-22-2011, 01:11 PM	#16
jpaulm Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	Hi @jackie_w. Thanks for the feedback, but I don't know what gave you the impression I was going epub to epub - I just always go from a zip file to epub! I have tried everything you and the others suggested, but I keep getting extra entries in my TOC, apparently generated by OOo cross-references to chapters. So it seems Calibre doesn't give me a way to get total control of my TOC generation... Assuming this is the case, do you know what its criteria are, or should I just keep trying things until the extra entries disappear?! TIA

02-22-2011, 01:27 PM	#17
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@jpaulm: Your zip file contains a TOC with the extra entries. Remove it and you wont see them in the output either.

02-22-2011, 02:09 PM	#18
jpaulm Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	Hi Kovid, that's the weird thing - there is no sign of it. Unless winzip is somehow not displaying it... content.opf has the following: <spine toc="ncx"> <itemref idref="html"/> </spine> but no sign of toc or ncx... There is a file toc.ncx in the epub zip, which I can modify, but I have to do that every time I change the source html file... Can you help?!

02-22-2011, 02:18 PM	#19
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	TOCs are specified in ncx files, or via guide element in the OPF, look for those in the zip file.

03-17-2011, 02:46 PM	#21
jpaulm Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	Thanks, Kovid, this seems to have been fixed in the latest version of Calibre (0.7.49). No more having to prune the extra entries off the toc - great! Thanks again!

03-17-2011, 03:09 PM	#22
jpaulm Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	Sorry everyone, I was wrong! I converted (my previous, modified) epub to epub by mistake!

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