[ldolse]

Part of the issue is every user has their own pet preferences on how they want their TOC to look & behave, and unfortunately getting even basic TOC is already a lot of work. Basically these types of TOC requirements require authoring tools, and Calibre isn't an authoring tool.

The H1 and H2 being tied to the 5 way controller is no problem - just follow the tutorial in the sticky.

Your other two requirements are getting you into special areas that are more appropriately authoring/editing - Calibre can't automatically meet those requirements. You'd need to convert to ePub, build a TOC by hand in Sigil (optionally convert to Mobi which will gen a two level TOC, and convert that to ePub). Once you have the TOC looking the way you'd want you need to mark it semantically in the ePub so that Calibre knows that the user visible TOC html file is the semantic TOC.

After that you need fix the starting point in a different way, which is also triggered by editing some ePub semantics, I think an element needs to be defined as a guide or a start point (though I'm not sure if you can do that with Sigil or if you need to do it by hand).

Finally when everything is correctly marked semantically and looking as you'd like you need to convert from ePub to mobi with the 'do not add detected chapter to Table of Contents' option.

That's just a high level of what's required - I'm more or less assuming that may scare you away, but if you're willing to tackle that then there is more detail floating around the forum.


Someone else may be able to suggest a way to get the multi-level TOC settings doing some of this for you, but I have a feeling they weren't designed to meet this use case.