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iroquois · 03-15-2012, 03:55 PM

Hi there. I'm kind of a newbie in this whole thing of eBooks which I've been looking into for the last few weeks. I'm trying to put together some standard ePubs for a small publishing house and so far I've come across a couple of issues:

-First, in all of my ePubs, when I "validate" them in Sigil, the following line appears, making reference to the cover '.jpg' file:

"File: cover.jpg" "Line: N/A" "Message: The resource is present in he OPF <manifest>, but it's not reachable (it's unused)."

I don't know why that's happening since the file is acually there, and I can see it in any reader or previewer. Any suggestions?

-I have a book which consists of five articles, each one written by a different author. The book has no "main author", so I want all of them to appear. The thing is, if I put their names separated by semicolons in a single OPF entry, it would ignore all of them but the first. The same happens when I create an entry for each name. Using ampersands doesn't work either since the whole entry is taken as a single sentence, therefore taking the five authors as one.

In the same book, I want the TOC to be displayed like it follows:

AUTHOR 1
Article 1 title............................................. ......................Page nº

AUTHOR 2
Article 2 title............................................. ......................Page nº

AUTHOR 3
Article 1 title............................................. ......................Page nº

etc

I've tried and tried but there's no way I can get what I want. Either the author and the title appear in the same line, or the page number is included in both lines.

I hope I've been clear enough for you to understand my issues.

I would really appreciate your help. Thanks!!

PS: I always export the ePUB from InDesign and then edit the code in Sigil.

03-15-2012, 03:55 PM	#1
iroquois Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: none	A couple of issues regarding TOC and OPF Hi there. I'm kind of a newbie in this whole thing of eBooks which I've been looking into for the last few weeks. I'm trying to put together some standard ePubs for a small publishing house and so far I've come across a couple of issues: -First, in all of my ePubs, when I "validate" them in Sigil, the following line appears, making reference to the cover '.jpg' file: "File: cover.jpg" "Line: N/A" "Message: The resource is present in he OPF <manifest>, but it's not reachable (it's unused)." I don't know why that's happening since the file is acually there, and I can see it in any reader or previewer. Any suggestions? -I have a book which consists of five articles, each one written by a different author. The book has no "main author", so I want all of them to appear. The thing is, if I put their names separated by semicolons in a single OPF entry, it would ignore all of them but the first. The same happens when I create an entry for each name. Using ampersands doesn't work either since the whole entry is taken as a single sentence, therefore taking the five authors as one. In the same book, I want the TOC to be displayed like it follows: AUTHOR 1 Article 1 title............................................. ......................Page nº AUTHOR 2 Article 2 title............................................. ......................Page nº AUTHOR 3 Article 1 title............................................. ......................Page nº etc I've tried and tried but there's no way I can get what I want. Either the author and the title appear in the same line, or the page number is included in both lines. I hope I've been clear enough for you to understand my issues. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks!! PS: I always export the ePUB from InDesign and then edit the code in Sigil.