Formatting: no chapters for me, sniff

pavelh · 03-18-2011, 08:11 AM

Hi and thanks for reading my post!

Just yesterday I was the king of the world (my formatting for Kindle finally made sense and it all worked nicely), today I am but a lackey - but a low one, you see, the one who gets to clean up after a party... or an execution. What happened? I realized that although my TOC works in terms of getting me to chapters, Kindle 3 really does not see them as chapters. I cannot navigate between chapters by pressing left-right on the directional control and the little markers don't show up on the progress line at the bottom of the screen.

Now I don't want to become an expert on formatting, but I need to be able to reformat some texts to a pleasing state. So far I have used Mobipocket Creator, imported my html and simply pointed the TOC Wizard to my headings (e.g "h1" in the Tag Name column) and that seemed to work very nicely. As I said I really don't need to do anything too fancy, but I would love my headings (see the "h1" mentioned above) to be also real chapters so I can navigate thru them using left/right and so that I can see their tiny markers on the progress line. Could anyone kindly help me with this, please?

Many thanks in advance!

Best regards,

PH

DiapDealer · 03-18-2011, 08:19 AM

Many questions like this have been answered in the Mobi format subforum. Take a gander down there. Basically you need to create a toc.ncx file before you convert (or create) your mobi in order for the chapter markers to be visible/functional on the Kindle's progress bar.

pavelh · 03-18-2011, 04:52 PM

Thanks for your reply. It's good to know it is a covered topic. Unfortunately I have not found an answer in the mobi forum. Fortunately I have found it here: http://www.cjs-easy-as-pie.com/p/cre...by-greene.html
Hope the link helps someone too.

Cheers,
PH

DMSmillie · 03-18-2011, 05:05 PM

I've posted lots of stuff in the Mobileread forums about NCX files and tables of contents over the past couple of months, though admittedly not all of it in the MOBI forum. For example see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...51#post1442751

pavelh · 03-18-2011, 05:40 PM

Thanks for your reply D! Perhaps you could check if my work-flow is alright? If you could, here is a link to my post in the mobi forum.

Best regards,

PH

03-18-2011, 08:11 AM	#1
pavelh Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 565178 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD	Formatting: no chapters for me, sniff Hi and thanks for reading my post! Just yesterday I was the king of the world (my formatting for Kindle finally made sense and it all worked nicely), today I am but a lackey - but a low one, you see, the one who gets to clean up after a party... or an execution. What happened? I realized that although my TOC works in terms of getting me to chapters, Kindle 3 really does not see them as chapters. I cannot navigate between chapters by pressing left-right on the directional control and the little markers don't show up on the progress line at the bottom of the screen. Now I don't want to become an expert on formatting, but I need to be able to reformat some texts to a pleasing state. So far I have used Mobipocket Creator, imported my html and simply pointed the TOC Wizard to my headings (e.g "h1" in the Tag Name column) and that seemed to work very nicely. As I said I really don't need to do anything too fancy, but I would love my headings (see the "h1" mentioned above) to be also real chapters so I can navigate thru them using left/right and so that I can see their tiny markers on the progress line. Could anyone kindly help me with this, please? Many thanks in advance! Best regards, PH

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03-18-2011, 08:19 AM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,552 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Many questions like this have been answered in the Mobi format subforum. Take a gander down there. Basically you need to create a toc.ncx file before you convert (or create) your mobi in order for the chapter markers to be visible/functional on the Kindle's progress bar.

03-18-2011, 04:52 PM	#3
pavelh Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 565178 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD	Thanks for your reply. It's good to know it is a covered topic. Unfortunately I have not found an answer in the mobi forum. Fortunately I have found it here: http://www.cjs-easy-as-pie.com/p/cre...by-greene.html Hope the link helps someone too. Cheers, PH

03-18-2011, 05:05 PM	#4
DMSmillie Enquiring Mind Posts: 562 Karma: 42350 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: London, UK Device: Kindle 3 (WiFi)	I've posted lots of stuff in the Mobileread forums about NCX files and tables of contents over the past couple of months, though admittedly not all of it in the MOBI forum. For example see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...51#post1442751

03-18-2011, 05:40 PM	#5
pavelh Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 565178 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD	Thanks for your reply D! Perhaps you could check if my work-flow is alright? If you could, here is a link to my post in the mobi forum. Best regards, PH