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Originally Posted by Hitch
Sorry: I haven't even had time to look at it. Honestly, given that the TOC is accessed, mainly, by the TOC icon at the top...I admit, I'm not sure I see the point. Are you complaining that you can't jump to the TOC from the TOC? If both the ncx and your toc.html contain the same content...???
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Well, they do contain the same content -- and they don't. For example, one of my books (this is a series) is a collection of essays, etc. by Thoreau, including 40 poems. In the external ToC (ncx), all the various poems are listed, but in my inline Toc, rather than having a couple of pages (or more) listing all the poems, I put a link to the beginning of that section of poetry, with a little blurb stating that the list of poems included in that section can be found at the beginning of that section (or via the external ToC). It unclutters that inline ToC -- never mind that the whole thing, overall, is just so much nicer to browse through and get an overview of what all is in the book than the external one.
And apart from that, it's just weird to go to the external ToC and what you see at the beginning is
- Title Page
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
etc.
...not even mentioning the "Table of Contents," as though it wasn't there at all -- and yet the "List of Illustrations" (which is a very similar thing) is.
In any case, I gather that, after all this, who knows what the reason is that iBooks does things that way (let alone who it "knows" that that's a ToC, and isn't just a paragraph that I have that includes a link to a particular page in the book), and I gather that there's nothing much one can do about it -- except, of course, the pseudo-solution that I came up with earlier in this thread.
Oh well. :/