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Originally Posted by egtalbot
James - if you're using bookmarks and anchors/links for the table of contents then what matters is what you name the bookmarks. So name your main Chapter One bookmark "chapterone" and the one in the sample "samplechapterone". Or something along those lines, I'm not 100% clear what each of the ereaders does automatically with bookmark names. I know that would work for mobi/kindle format. At this point, I wouldn't recommend doing a toc any other way (I can't remember if you mentioned how you're creating your toc).
It's definitely odd that the headers aren't any bigger - I seem to be doing the exact same thing and mine are. But I can tell you I would be at least as frustrated as you are if I had run into the same problems.
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Thanks, EG, that's useful information for those doing a toc. Personally I've never seen the point of a toc in a novel. Ask someone how far they've got and no-one says "I'm up to chapter seven". They say "I'm up to the part where Jack cheats Jill over a bucket of water". The meat-grinder presumably does one automatically in case of need, because it can't know whether the meat it's grinding comes from a novel or a work of non-fiction. If I remember correctly, my calibre-generated books were done with the toc option unchecked.
Regarding the headers, it's possible that they would look different on an actual ereader. For mobi, for example, I have to use Kindle for Mac since I don't have a real Kindle to test them on. There isn't actually a lot of difference between 12pt and 14pt, and I usually go for 16pt for the chapter titles, but I seem to remember that the style guide recommended not going above 14pt, and when I used the nuclear method, I wasn't going to argue!