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Old 12-21-2014, 08:23 AM   #4
Notjohn
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Originally Posted by steven522 View Post
I load in a single html file with each chapter set with an H1/H2/etc. code.
I generate the table of contents in Sigil to get the listing in the contents panel.
Well, I have always split my book into sections/chapters first. Pace to the gurus among us, I find this easiest to do in Book View. I left-click my cursor just past the last character in the section (typically a full stop). Then I click on the icon in the second menu line that shows one page, a blue arrow, then two pages. I keep doing that until I'm done.

Then I go to Tools > Table of Contents > Edit Table of Contents (rarely, Generate Table of Contents). Nine times out of ten, the entire TOC is there and I don't have to do anything more to it.

Incidentally, I have been doing more work in Book View lately, just because I'm lazy. If I want to substitute one word for another, I just highlight the doomed word and type the new one on top of it. In earlier iterations of Sigil, this was a recipe for disaster -- it kept inserting non-breaking spaces and other bad stuff. But 0.8.1 doesn't seem to do that, and I keep getting away with this risky behavior.
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