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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
I've mentioned LibreOffice here as proof that a TOC can be generated on the fly by parsing a HTML file for header tags. I simply wish that my ebook reader and some lightweight e-book reading software on my PC could do the same -- I just don't see the need for a separate TOC. I still don't understand the benefits of having NCX and OPF, but I stand corrected by all of you that the problem isn't the complexity of ePub, but just my indolence  |
Because ereaders are lightweight read-only software. Yeah, LibreOffice can generate ToCs. It can also edit the files.
Why can't my ereader edit books too?
You want some "lightweight ebook reading software" to... compare favorably in scope to a
very heavyweight Document editor.
Keep in mind, the only reason LibreOffice includes code for doing so is because
it is intended as an editing software!!
Instead of performing a one-off conversion/formatting/structuring in order to provide all necessary resources from the get-go. For a format that is intended to be immutable.