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Old 02-26-2011, 12:13 AM   #16
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I am getting nothing! I get a TOC with a start page. Nothing else. that is why I am lost as to what I should do. The first is from calibre, the second from sigil. I tried the default in calibre and it bookmarked everything except what I wanted it to and created over 2000+ bookmarks because anything that had an h in it was book marked.

I guess I just need an idiots guide to making a toc from a pdf/epub. If anyone wants the challenge, I would be willing to pay to have it done!

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Quit bouncing back and forth , you probably are undoing any Sigil work, if you convert Again in Calibre.
(because this belongs in Sigil)

Sigil makesEPUB TOC easy. Place the cursor on the line (in book view) you want to appear in the TOC. Set the Heading Level using the pull-down box provided.
Repeat on the next location.

Press F7 (the TOC editor) to see what you have. remove the Tics' from the lines you DO NOT want in the TOC. OK

Finish up. Save
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Old 02-26-2011, 05:01 PM   #17
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Thanks for the help. Got the TOC in sigil that i wanted. Took out all that I didn't. Saved it, opened in calibre, it was there, converted to mobi, GONE. How can I keep it in the conversion to mobi?

Thanks for all the help!

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Old 02-26-2011, 09:09 PM   #18
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Got the TOC in sigil that i wanted. Took out all that I didn't. Saved it, opened in calibre, it was there, converted to mobi, GONE. How can I keep it in the conversion to mobi?
A better question is what are you setting that caused it disappear?

I just tried a ePub to Mobi conversion. I ensured everything in the TOC area of conversion was blank or unchecked and left the Number of links at 50 and chapter threashold at 6. I did not check anything in the mobi output. I kept hueristic processing off. The TOC ended up fine in the Mobi.

If your ePub has a properly formatted TOC then when converting to Mobi it should have a good TOC, unless you attempted to adjust things under the TOC or Mobi settings area during conversion.

I don't use Mobi, maybe others can jump in with a plausible reason for what you're experiencing.
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Old 02-26-2011, 09:41 PM   #19
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(NB I don't use Mobi)

It almost sounds like qxlooper is not converting the Sigil edited version of the EPUB (or is converting a different format to Mobi. Calibre remembers the LAST convert IN and OUT settings ) Be sure to drop the 'fixed' EPUB into the meta-data edit window, then pay close attention to the Source format setting, before clicking 'Convert'
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It almost sounds like qxlooper is not converting the Sigil edited version of the EPUB (or is converting a different format to Mobi. Calibre remembers the LAST convert IN and OUT settings ) Be sure to drop the 'fixed' EPUB into the meta-data edit window, then pay close attention to the Source format setting, before clicking 'Convert'
You may be right. I always use the Open With GUI plugin and right click to open the epub in Sigil. Doing this ensures I always save to my existing ePub in the calibre folder and never have to worry about a separate version of the ePub.
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Old 02-27-2011, 04:57 AM   #21
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it can be very frustrating when the TOC fails to show in mobi but it's usually ( in my case anyway) a user error.

my standard sequence is fix header tags with calibre heuristics, open + save in sigil to force a new , header based, toc creation ( and I delete any hardcoded one at the same time), then epub to mobi on default settings. check with calibre viewer at each stage.
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Old 02-28-2011, 02:55 PM   #22
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I will try again!

Thanks for the replies!
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Old 03-01-2011, 01:56 PM   #23
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Still no luck! I get all the chapters in the toc, save as a new epub(sigil), open in calibre, see that it is there, then without changing any settings click convert. It does it thing, reopen the mobi, toc, gone. Guess I am doing something wrong. Is doing it in word easier?

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Old 03-02-2011, 02:00 AM   #24
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do it again - this type click reset defaults on convert screen. check / post all of your epub to mobi conversion settings if it still does not work
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Reset defaults, and also import the fixed epub from Sigil to a new book record just to make sure none of your customized conversion options for that book aren't getting in the way.
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any suggestions on handling/tweaking an img alt tag please e.g.
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<h2 class="calibre1 sgc-2" id="heading_id_2"><img alt="[Chapter 1]" class="calibre9" src="../Images/001.jpg" /></h2>
i see nothing in TOC, in viewer
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I suspect that there is a way to do it with XPATH, but you could just use search and replace:
Search:
Code:
(?P<hopen><h2[^>]*)><img alt="(?P<title>.*?)"
Replace:
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\g<hopen> title="\g<title>"><img
After that just open it in Sigil and it will create a TOC, save and your done.
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i'm struggling to follow that code. as both hopen & \g are new to me.

but you are replacing the img alt tag with a title tag, I think ?

i picked out the chapter number with a regex and inserted it as text, in a small font, before the image. toc was OK then. not ideal but I can live with it.
so my code became
Code:
<h2 class="calibre10" id="heading_id_2">1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt="[Chapter 1]" class="calibre11" src="../Images/001.jpg" /></h2>
and I set font size in calibre10 style to 0.5em

is img alt not supported in epub ?
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i'm struggling to follow that code. as both hopen & \g are new to me.

but you are replacing the img alt tag with a title tag, I think ?

i picked out the chapter number with a regex and inserted it as text, in a small font, before the image. toc was OK then. not ideal but I can live with it.
so my code became
Code:
<h2 class="calibre10" id="heading_id_2">1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt="[Chapter 1]" class="calibre11" src="../Images/001.jpg" /></h2>
and I set font size in calibre10 style to 0.5em

is img alt not supported in epub ?
Image Alt is for non-visual displays (TTS)
<H2 title="[Chapter 1]" ...
gets that label into the TOC that uses headings (Sigil )
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i'm struggling to follow that code. as both hopen & \g are new to me.

but you are replacing the img alt tag with a title tag, I think ?

i picked out the chapter number with a regex and inserted it as text, in a small font, before the image. toc was OK then. not ideal but I can live with it.
so my code became
Code:
<h2 class="calibre10" id="heading_id_2">1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt="[Chapter 1]" class="calibre11" src="../Images/001.jpg" /></h2>
and I set font size in calibre10 style to 0.5em

is img alt not supported in epub ?
?P<stuff> at just after an open parentheses lets you use names instead of \1 \2 or whatever syntax numeric backreferences use - I don't use them much as names are more readable and don't require counting parentheses.

<hopen> was a name I just made up, as was <title>. \g<groupname> is how you refer to the variables in the replacement expression.

As alt tags have no purpose on an ebook the search and replace just deleted the alt tag and moved it's contents into the title tag in the header. Sigil reads title tags when it creates a TOC, they have priority over any text that may be inside the <h2> tags (which is none in this case).

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