Hi, all!
I have many, many books published via Smashwords and all have turned out great... except any time I even attempt to use a table of contents. Only 1 has ever turned out correctly. I'm at a loss.
I just tried to publish one with a TOC and I'm frustrated. I checked it as a .pdf, .html, and they look fine. Then, I try to check them as .epub and the table of contents is terrible, completely out-of-order. Sometimes, a single chapter line (for example "Chapter 2") in the table of contents list is given an entire page by itself. This is when I have not linked or used any style beyond normal for the TOC list. It does the same thing when the TOC is linked, too.
This last book I attempted, I downloaded the .epub from Smashwords and ran it through the .epub validator. It came out with no issues.
I've gone through the style guide and I keep it as simple as possible. I've contacted the tech support at Smashwords and they told me to force everything to the "normal" style and re-do it. I did. It didn't help.
I've considered switching it to an HTML page in Word and then switching back to .doc, but wanted to see how other people deal with this. Any information will be most appreciated. Thanks.