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Psymon · 11-21-2014, 02:49 PM

I'm not sure how to explain this any better than I did -- although I do realize that it probably sounds a bit convoluted. I only experience this problem in iBooks, on my iPad, too -- it doesn't happen in ADE on my PC -- so I guess if you don't have an iPad (or other IOS device) you won't be able to see it. I'll try to re-state the problem, though, without reviewing what I wrote before -- maybe it'll come out differently this time and be more understandable what the problem is.

So every ebook reader has the ability to display a ToC for the reader -- when I make my book in Sigil, there's an option that does this automatically from the various headings, etc. that I've created in my book, of course. Apart from that, though, I wanted to make a "Table of Contents" in my book that's more like in a print book, i.e. after the title page and stuff, you "turn the page" and there's your ToC, all nicely formatted, looking the same (typographically) as the rest of your book does and stuff.

Oh, and this is in epub2, by the way (if that matters, I don't know).

The words (title) "Table of Contents" in there are coded as an <h1> heading, and therefore should show up in the device's (or more specifically in iBooks') ToC, too, though -- but they don't.

In ADE on my PC -- where things work fine -- the first things listed in my ToC (the app's ToC, that is) are...

Title Page & Illustration
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
[and then the rest of the book]

...but in iBooks, no matter what I do, I can't seem to get my Toc to show up in iBooks' Toc, so what I end up with is this being listed...

Title Page & Illustration
List of Illustrations
Foreword
[and then the rest of the book]

Hope that explains the problem better?

11-21-2014, 02:49 PM	#3
Psymon Chief Bohemian Misfit Posts: 571 Karma: 462964 Join Date: May 2013 Device: iPad, ADE	I'm not sure how to explain this any better than I did -- although I do realize that it probably sounds a bit convoluted. I only experience this problem in iBooks, on my iPad, too -- it doesn't happen in ADE on my PC -- so I guess if you don't have an iPad (or other IOS device) you won't be able to see it. I'll try to re-state the problem, though, without reviewing what I wrote before -- maybe it'll come out differently this time and be more understandable what the problem is. So every ebook reader has the ability to display a ToC for the reader -- when I make my book in Sigil, there's an option that does this automatically from the various headings, etc. that I've created in my book, of course. Apart from that, though, I wanted to make a "Table of Contents" in my book that's more like in a print book, i.e. after the title page and stuff, you "turn the page" and there's your ToC, all nicely formatted, looking the same (typographically) as the rest of your book does and stuff. Oh, and this is in epub2, by the way (if that matters, I don't know). The words (title) "Table of Contents" in there are coded as an <h1> heading, and therefore should show up in the device's (or more specifically in iBooks') ToC, too, though -- but they don't. In ADE on my PC -- where things work fine -- the first things listed in my ToC (the app's ToC, that is) are... Title Page & Illustration Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword [and then the rest of the book] ...but in iBooks, no matter what I do, I can't seem to get my Toc to show up in iBooks' Toc, so what I end up with is this being listed... Title Page & Illustration List of Illustrations Foreword [and then the rest of the book] Hope that explains the problem better?