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Originally Posted by AThirstyMind
Hitch... because I'm a control freak and like my own look for the TOC... also when I started out (years ago)the instructions were NOT to use the Word TOC-tool. Creature of habit I guess. I also always hated the look of the MobiPocket generated TOC as well as the Calibre generated one.
Odeta... the same answer as the one I gave Hitch. Most devices use the ncx toc anyway now except the older Kindle models, don't they. This 'in the front of the book before the start of your text' is for only those older Kindle models. It takes a bit longer (bookmarking and linking) but normally not more than 15min or so. And also because occasionally Smashwords will say "Where's your TOC" because although it's not necessary now for epubs, it is necessary for the books Smashwords makes for sale on their own site.
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ATM:
Well...it's easy-peasy to style the word-generated TOC, so that's why I'm a bit confuddled. You can make it "look" any way you like, with the simple expedient of styles. Everything from fonts to level of indentation (if any) to line-height...{shrug}. I would find making them by hand now to be a tedious waste of time, as really, I can't think of any reason NOT to. I further don't really recall the instructions "not" to use it, except for those folks who never could figure out the differences between headers and paragraph styles. I've used the Word TOC tool for literally dogs' years, LONG before I ever looked at my first eBook; I used them "back in the day" for making interactive linked TOC's for long legal documents I was working on (like multi-hundred-page CC&R's, for example, or lengthy lease agreements for commercial property). I'm going back at LEAST to...hell, the 90's?
I concur about the old MOBIpocket TOCs, but again, those can/could be styled (within HTML reason, not CSS), back when we were all using them, what, 5-6 years ago? But obviously, a lot's happened since then.
Vis-a-vis the Kindle devices--no, they don't "all" or even in the majority, yet, use the NCX. And given that ePUB3 is sending the NCX the way of the dodo, and moving to a more "toc.html" type approach (I don't care WHAT they call it), I'd think that you might want to bite the bullet and learn the fast way. But, hey: if what you're doing works for you, who am I to argue?
Best,
Hitch