Thanks a lot for replying Kovid!
Well, I just discovered something interesting once I decided to go "spelunking" into my epub. I decided to use the Web Inspector in Caliber, and then use the "inspect" option to see what the code was doing.
As it turns out, my title page, which I originally tagged as an h1, had been changed to P, class="title"...adding a space and then
"sigilNotInTOC". For example, the Copyright page reads:
Code:
<div class="story" id="Copyright.html" xml:lang="es-ES" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
<h2 class="copyright sigilNotInTOC" id="heading_id_2">Copyright ©2012 ...<br />
...instead of what it was originally: h2 class="copyright".
The main difference is that for the Copyright page, there's no exclusion from the TOC. The title page, since it is changed from "h1 class..." to "p class", seems to be excluded as a working link. It's presented as text, but it doesn't work as a link to the page.
**By the way: I am assuming that this occurs in Sigil, but it's not present in the code as I leave it. I always find it
after I've put the document into the Calibre library to be converted.**
I'm currently using both Calibre and KindleGen with different results. KindleGen gives me the TOC I need, (all links work), but it just DESTROYS my formatting in places like my copyright, endmatter, etc. The main content looks...ok, but I just don't want to sacrifice the look of the book, so that only the TOC works as desired.
Calibre does the opposite, it presents me with a fairly good transition in look and feel, but the TOC is missing that first item.
Personally, I'd like to keep using Calibre to do my conversion...I don't like the "see what we get" feeling of the KindleGen process. That being said, I don't understand what is changing my tags and if that is at all what's causing these results.
Any suggestions are very welcome.