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Old 06-20-2012, 07:16 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by RickAltman View Post
I am attempting my first ePub book after about 150 years in electronic publishing. In fact, the software I'm suing (Ventura Publisher) is old enough to be in a museum. Nonetheless, it creates fine HTML and I have succeeded in creating very clean-looking output that Calibre digests. Mostly.

Here's the problem: my chapters show up in bizarre order. Introduction, Ch 26 (last), Ch 8, Ch 16...

The TOC shows everything in proper order and it is linked correctly to each chapter. The master HTM file also shows all chapters in correct order. But when paging through the book (in Calibre's viewer or on my Kindle), I get the incorrect ordering.

It is not an option to rebuild in Word. I did open the ePub file in Sigil and the TOC showed up in correct order. But I cannot get Calibre to behave itself, and I would be most grateful for advice and ideas...


Rick A.
Pleasanton CA
Hi there in warm P town

The TOC in (Sigil) or Calibre is a link to parts of the book. It is NOT the play order.
In Sigil you can fix this by dragging the Filename as seen in the BOOK Browser to its proper place (order). (The TOC is still correct, no matter what order the files end up.)
Save and all is good



I believe if you IMPORT a Index.html with the file names in the proper order.
See this section in the help files http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#id19
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