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Martin Cloake · 07-07-2011, 08:42 AM

I've read the various threads advising on conversion and particularly the TOC and chapter break issues.

I've got a Word document, which has page breaks and a TOC set up. I've saved it as .htm (no option for unfiltered HTML in Word for Mac 2008) and then imported to Calibre and converted to Mobi. The chapter breaks weren't detected and the TOC did not work. So I converted again after enabling Heuristics. This resolved the chapter breaks issue, but knocked out all the paragraph indents and still does not make the TOC work. In fact, it makes the TOC a single line of text.

The code I have when I check using search and replace does not resemble the coding examples in the stickies on this thread. Can anyone help?

I've got to say that I'm a sub and production journalist with over 20 years experience of dealing with editorial software systems, and I have never come across anything as complicated as publishing an ebook from a Mac seems to be. It doesn't help that Amazon's own information is hopelessly inadequate for Mac users - it just assumes everyone can use MobiPocket. So the info I have gained has been through searching the web. I know it's very possible there's something really basic I have missed, or that i am simply not thinking in the right way, but I just cannot fathom this out. And it is incredibly frustrating.

07-07-2011, 08:42 AM	#1
Martin Cloake Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: iPhone	First effort converting on a Mac I've read the various threads advising on conversion and particularly the TOC and chapter break issues. I've got a Word document, which has page breaks and a TOC set up. I've saved it as .htm (no option for unfiltered HTML in Word for Mac 2008) and then imported to Calibre and converted to Mobi. The chapter breaks weren't detected and the TOC did not work. So I converted again after enabling Heuristics. This resolved the chapter breaks issue, but knocked out all the paragraph indents and still does not make the TOC work. In fact, it makes the TOC a single line of text. The code I have when I check using search and replace does not resemble the coding examples in the stickies on this thread. Can anyone help? I've got to say that I'm a sub and production journalist with over 20 years experience of dealing with editorial software systems, and I have never come across anything as complicated as publishing an ebook from a Mac seems to be. It doesn't help that Amazon's own information is hopelessly inadequate for Mac users - it just assumes everyone can use MobiPocket. So the info I have gained has been through searching the web. I know it's very possible there's something really basic I have missed, or that i am simply not thinking in the right way, but I just cannot fathom this out. And it is incredibly frustrating.