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Originally Posted by st_albert
At some point, IIRC, sigil will acquire a plug-in interface. At that time, it will be truly trivial to set up a "kindlegen" plugin, and almost as trivial to write a script that will generate an inline xhtml TOC from the toc.ncx file. Problem solved.
Actually, in my case I still probably won't bother with a kindlegen plugin, since it's already easy to run the suitably tweaked epub through kindlegen from the command line, as Hitch indicated above.
But generating an in-line TOC would be a great candidate for a plugin, IMHO.
Anyway, a plug-in architecture will be a great answer for those who need a "purple bidet" plugin, and we won't be needing to have these kinds of arguments.
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Yeah, I admit, given the simplicity of it (unlike, say, re-ordering the play order, or chapters), it does sound like a purple bidet to me--but everyone has their own wishlist. I don't, though, want to see Sigil go the way of some other tools, and lose its primary focus, which still ePUB. As we all know, we get requests to make it "word with magic epub+mobi export features" around here daily. That sentence was not directed at the OP--but we do see those requests constantly. WRT to the nav elements--as yet, as we all know, the major players aren't yet supporting ePUB3 nav elements, so if and when that occurs, it'll be interesting to see if that TYPE of navigation "page" will actually work with a mobi--or if we'll still be stuck with an inline TOC, as whilst similar, they are not the same. The nav blocks in ePUB 3 are, as I understand it, intended for larger, overview items.
For the life of me, why they supplanted the ncx--which works perfectly fine--with a bloody TYPED TOC seems utterly ridiculous...in this line of work, it's 1 step forward and three steps back. Very frustrating. Of all the major devices, I find the NookColor's ncx-viewer the easiest to use for navigation, superior to the iBooks' app and the Fire + other Kindle's "Go to TOC" function, as Nook allows you to navigate from whence you are, without jumping hither and yon first; certainly
NOT the inline TOC's. Bloody tedious.
Hitch