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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
So, being a little spooked by what I heard from Dion, I Googled the IE question and came up with: (see Screenshot "Potential Problem").
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That looks to me to be a completely unrelated issue. That has to do with the server serving an .epub file, but Internet Explorer is thinking it is a .zip file. (Most likely a mimetype error on the server, just ignore that Microsoft post).
As a side note, next time you can just link directly to the site instead of an image:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...6-aeddf3718e1e
As another side note, my eyeballs are hurting from that JPG! PNG please!
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Now I just transferred an html file for a third book onto Sigil and saw that the html files in the Book Browser were being opened with Internet Explorer icons.
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The "icons" that the computer shows for certain extensions is called "file associations". The icon just shows the program which will open up that file type by default when you double click on it or tell it to "Open".
Somewhere along the line, you must have set .xhtml files to open with Internet Explorer. (Maybe it was an Internet Explorer upgrade?)
I know many of the more "techie" people dislike Internet Explorer, and use Firefox or Chrome instead.
If you right click on a XHTML file and say "Open With", you should get a screen along these lines:
As you can see, my default is Firefox Aurora. (And Chrome + Internet Explorer is in the list to choose from).
You could then change from IE to Chrome if you wanted (if it is not in that initial list, you can click the "Other Programs" to see a bigger list of programs to choose from).
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
#1) How do I get the links to show up in book view (and work)?
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theducks answered that. (And I see Turtle91 answered that in your main post as well?) (You really should have used the good old QUOTE tags to simplify your post!) And do not be afraid to get rid of useless information (such as the user's karma and post count).
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
#2) How do I add the About the Author file to the TOC ?
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Stick a new HTML file and rename it (I would stick with "AbouttheAuthor.xhtml"). Stick whatever information you want into this About the Author page:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About The Author</h1>
<p>Gregg Bell was born in the year 1, he likes to post questions on a little known forum called <a href="https://www.mobileread.com/">MobileRead</a>.</p>
<p>Please check out the latest news at his site: <a href="http://www.sample.com">http://www.sample.com/</a></p>
</body>
</html>
Then regenerate the TOC using Sigil (Tools - Table of Contents - Generate Table of Contents).
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
#3) Will I have to do the 'generate html Toc' to have the About the Author added to the html TOC? (I would assume so.)
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IF you want the "About the Author" section to be in the HTML TOC, you can use Sigil's automatic tool.
BUT BE AWARE, that it will regenerate the TOC from scratch, and all of that CSS that I did will disappear.
Here is how to do it manually:
Look at the filename of your "About The Author" HTML file. In the case of mine, the file is called "AbouttheAuthor.xhtml".
Put this into your HTML TOC:
Code:
<p><a href="../Text/AbouttheAuthor.xhtml">About the Author</a></p>
Red = filename,
Green = Text you want to show up.
THEN, make sure that your classes match the others (for example, if your HTML TOC has the classes "tocone" "toctwo" "tocthree"). You would add the orange part to match the rest of the entries:
Code:
<p class="tocone"><a href="../Text/AbouttheAuthor.xhtml">About the Author</a></p>
Then be sure to double check it in Book View to make sure that it looks correct, AND be sure to click on the link to make sure it actually works.