"Aye," he said, "and thar's the rub;
the problem ain't with them epubs;
the problem's with Apple and Kindle and more,
as ePUB standards they abhor.
"I know that TOC I want can sure be made;
'specially if I drink that there Apple Kool-Aid.
But then them other stores can't display,
them numbers I want this durn ebook to say!
"And that just plumb ain't damn fair,
Because my client's sure gonna care.
If I can't get these damn numbers to show,
I ain't ever gonna get that promised dough.
"So for now I'll just give her them Amazon rules,
and hope that like God, she loves children and fools.
'Cuz until them readers let me have Javascript,
My books cannot be so equipped.
"So off I go to finish this tome,
And farther afield in coding I shall roam.
Perhaps I'll meet me some HTML5,
So that numbered TOC's I may yet derive."
Just for S&G's, and in the spirit of the thing.
Hitch