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Originally Posted by jackie_w

I agree the smaller text-indent looks better. I'm not totally sure but I think you may be right about problems with named styles beginning with a digit rather than alpha. Best to just avoid using them in future.

I agree.

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Hmm...The TOC is no longer nested into 3 levels. Chap 1 is still nested but Chaps 2-23 aren't. Is this really what you wanted?

I think Chapters 3, 4, 8, & 13 are also 3 levels, each at the beginning of its respective part. What reduced the other chapters to 2 levels was removing the part headings that preceded them in the T of C ... which was done because they seemed redundant and cumbersome. I'm not sure what to do with this, need to play with it more, especially in light of the following:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Also, I suspect when you removed duplicates in Sigil you may have removed the wrong ones. For instance, if you select Chap 5 you now go to the line 'Chapter 5: The Cave of Trees' instead of the image at the top of the page. i.e. the TOC is no longer pointing at the "invisible" <h2> chapter heading at the top of the page but at the "visible" styling <h2> lower down instead. Of course, if you like it better the way it is feel free to ignore my comments

I tried several different ways of removing headings and this seemed to work best among them. Interestingly, when I open the EPUB in Adobe Digital Editions and the SONY Reader Library (EPUB readers I downloaded onto my Mac), clicking on Chapter 5 and the other chapters which contain illustrations (10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21) in the table of contents results in the illustration appearing at the top of the page ... part of the reason I thought this change was OK. However, when I do this in the Calibre reader, the results are as you describe. As the Yul Brynner character in the original King and I film would say, "Is a puzzlement!" I'm not sure what to do with this except sleep on it for now.

Originally Posted by jackie_w

I'm afraid I can't help with Sigil as I've never used it. Word/Calibre/Notepad++ text editor is my toolkit. For no reason other than my own gut-feel I'm not comfortable with moving back and forth between Calibre and Sigil because I'd heard they do things differently especially in the TOC area.

I've found Sigil useful, but prefer to keep my use of it to a minimum.

Originally Posted by jackie_w

It should be easy enough to remove it manually. You need to edit the file called content.opf inside the epub (Tweak-epub in Calibre will let you do it).

Done. Thanks!

Originally Posted by jackie_w

The bare minimum you need is to go to the spine section and remove the line marked in red below:

<spine toc="ncx">
        <itemref idref="filelist.xml"/>
        <itemref idref="titlepage.xhtml"/>

I am dazed and amazed at the detailed level of knowledge and understanding this exemplifies. (Perhaps this reveals my own lack of same. ) Nonetheless, as Darth Vader would say, "Impressive."

I will come back to this in the morning, perhaps with a more fresh and insightful perspective. Again, I can't say enough, thank you, Jackie!