Creating My First Cookbook

mvparker79 · 11-27-2011, 03:13 PM

I think my request is fairly simple, but I'm oblivious to xpath so I don't know what to do.

I'm using Calibre 0.8.23 to convert a cookbook I've compiled over the years in word form. I'm trying to create the table of contents and it wants the xPath expression of each of 3 levels. I have no idea what to put in there. I do know that in the table of contents I want 2 levels. I have each section of the cookbook (meats, poultry, etc) labeled as chapters (Chapter 1: Meats) (Chapter 2: Poultry). Then the name of each recipe is at the top of the following pages in bold. I would like the table of contents to read:

Chapter 1: Meats
Hamburgers
Tacos

Chapter 2: Poultry
Fried Chicken
Chicken Marsala

I'm also having problems with the page breaks. I put a page break after each recipe so they would be on their own page just like a real cookbook. I converted the .doc file to PDF format, but when it converts to ePub, it removes the breaks.

Can anyone tell me how to construct the table of contents and keep the breaks?

Starson17 · 11-28-2011, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by mvparker79

I think my request is fairly simple, but I'm oblivious to xpath so I don't know what to do.

I'm using Calibre 0.8.23 and I'm trying to create the table of contents. It wants the xPath expression each of 3 levels. I have no idea what to put in there. I do know that in the table of contents I want 2 levels. I have each section of the cookbook (meats, poultry, etc) labeled as chapters (Chapter 1: Meats) (Chapter 2: Poultry). Then the name of each recipe is at the top of the following pages in bold. I would like the table of contents to read:

Chapter 1: Meats
Hamburgers
Tacos

Chapter 2: Poultry
Fried Chicken
Chicken Marsala

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

This is the recipe forum. Unfortunately, the term "recipe" used here means computer code that tells calibre how to create an ebook from a website. I've written several recipes (calibre-type) for websites that have recipes (food-type). You're in the wrong forum for food recipes.

I can move your post, but it's not clear if you are creating a book from scratch, or converting an existing book of food recipes.

If you are creating a book, you probably don't want to be in the calibre forums at all. If you are simply converting an ebook, you want to be in the calibre conversion forum, and that's where I'm going to move this thread for you to get more help.

mvparker79 · 11-28-2011, 11:29 AM

Sorry everyone. Noob here.

Starson17 · 11-28-2011, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by mvparker79

Sorry everyone. Noob here.

That's OK. We're just trying to help you and I thought you'd get more help here. So do you already have a book?

I'm tempted to say go to the Sigil forum. I use Sigil to add my TOC and adjust TOC entries for books in my calibre library. You set the header tags h1, h2, h3 for different levels in Sigil, then hit the create TOC button and Sigil builds it for you. You could also do an EPUB to EPUB conversion to do what you want with XPATH, but that tends to be more cryptic for most users.

theducks · 11-28-2011, 02:12 PM

I would go the Sigil route;
First, it is WYSIWIG

, so it will be easier to see what happens.

Assign heading levels
<h2> for your chapters
<h3> for your recipes

and the TOC will happen (after you click the button) as you show

If you want to keep a Chapter in a single file and still have Page breaks.

assign a class to those H3 tags (in Code View) that contains: page-break-before:always as one of the entries

11-27-2011, 03:13 PM	#1
mvparker79 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 16 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: iPad	Creating My First Cookbook I think my request is fairly simple, but I'm oblivious to xpath so I don't know what to do. I'm using Calibre 0.8.23 to convert a cookbook I've compiled over the years in word form. I'm trying to create the table of contents and it wants the xPath expression of each of 3 levels. I have no idea what to put in there. I do know that in the table of contents I want 2 levels. I have each section of the cookbook (meats, poultry, etc) labeled as chapters (Chapter 1: Meats) (Chapter 2: Poultry). Then the name of each recipe is at the top of the following pages in bold. I would like the table of contents to read: Chapter 1: Meats Hamburgers Tacos Chapter 2: Poultry Fried Chicken Chicken Marsala I'm also having problems with the page breaks. I put a page break after each recipe so they would be on their own page just like a real cookbook. I converted the .doc file to PDF format, but when it converts to ePub, it removes the breaks. Can anyone tell me how to construct the table of contents and keep the breaks? Last edited by mvparker79; 11-28-2011 at 11:35 AM.

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11-28-2011, 11:29 AM	#3
mvparker79 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 16 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: iPad	Sorry everyone. Noob here.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,778 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I would go the Sigil route; First, it is WYSIWIG , so it will be easier to see what happens. Assign heading levels <h2> for your chapters <h3> for your recipes and the TOC will happen (after you click the button) as you show If you want to keep a Chapter in a single file and still have Page breaks. assign a class to those H3 tags (in Code View) that contains: page-break-before:always as one of the entries

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