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Originally Posted by Tulpana
DiapDealer--Thank you for being the first person to state this. Barring any solution to my problem, hearing someone say what you do has helped.
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If you do not wish to learn to make ePUBs by using xhtml and css, then you should purchase a program called "Jutoh," which only costs $40. It works rather much like Word in many ways, and can make a reasonable and clean ePUB and MOBI books from a "word-processing" style interface. Making epubs with Calibre is, IMHO,
bad practice. Some people here do it as a short-cut, and then clean the resulting epub in Sigil--
but they understand ePUBS, and know what they are doing. (At least, some of them do.)
My only quibble with Sigil is that
it is still listed as an WYSIWYG epub editor. That's true--IF what you want is very simple. That doesn't mean that, like iAuthor, any moron can make
any book, replete with HTML5 and CSS3 features, without knowing anything. (This is not to say you, particularly, are a moron, please note). For example, in Sigil (or virtually any other epub-making method), you cannot embed a font without knowing CSS and HTML. Period. That's not WYSIWYG.
HOWEVER, all that being said, if you had chapter headings in Sigil, you should have been able to do nothing more than
click in your chapter heading paragraph--from the book view--and simply select a heading from the dropdown menu. That would have changed your Chapter "line" or name or whatever into a heading style. Then, had you done that throughout the book, and you clicked "generate TOC from headings," you would have had an NCX made.
So, in other words, just like you can click in a paragraph in Word, and select a style, you can do the same thing with a header style in Sigil. It is, frankly, identical to the Word interface.
Really--try Jutoh. You might find it very comfortable and familiar.
Hitch