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PeterPark · 02-17-2012, 07:17 PM

Hey guys,
I've been struggling for a while to figure this out. I searched the forums, and the closest solution I found was to use Sigil to re-arrange the book and then convert to mobi.

Anyway, I have a ton of HTML pages, each of them I want to be its own chapter. The filename format is "#-Title.html" so for example "100-Using-Calibre.html"

I have a TOC HTML file that references each of the HTML files in increasing # order.

However, once it's converted to mobi, the book jumps from 0, 1, 10, 101, 102, and so on. Instead of obviously 0, 1, 2, 3, ...

I have some 500+ chapters/html files so doing this by hand in Sigil sounds rather time consuming.

I'm not sure what's wrong.

The only other solution I can think of is to combine all the HTML files into one HTML file. But I'm not sure how to build a TOC though. Each HTML page does have a <h1> tag title though.

Any help would be appreciated, I've spent hours here and going nuts. Initially I thought it was out of order because of the html file's creation time until I noticed this pattern.

02-17-2012, 07:17 PM	#1
PeterPark Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle	Out of Order Converting HTML Files with a TOC Hey guys, I've been struggling for a while to figure this out. I searched the forums, and the closest solution I found was to use Sigil to re-arrange the book and then convert to mobi. Anyway, I have a ton of HTML pages, each of them I want to be its own chapter. The filename format is "#-Title.html" so for example "100-Using-Calibre.html" I have a TOC HTML file that references each of the HTML files in increasing # order. However, once it's converted to mobi, the book jumps from 0, 1, 10, 101, 102, and so on. Instead of obviously 0, 1, 2, 3, ... I have some 500+ chapters/html files so doing this by hand in Sigil sounds rather time consuming. I'm not sure what's wrong. The only other solution I can think of is to combine all the HTML files into one HTML file. But I'm not sure how to build a TOC though. Each HTML page does have a <h1> tag title though. Any help would be appreciated, I've spent hours here and going nuts. Initially I thought it was out of order because of the html file's creation time until I noticed this pattern.