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Originally Posted by AlanHK
It does work in iBooks.
Try not to assume, or at least not to imply, that I'm an idiot.
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I wasn't. Some while back--like...5 years ago, you
literally couldn't get it to work. At that time, IIRC, the cover automatically displayed to the left of the TOC, so, Apple thought, "No reason to put the bloody cover in there," and they'd yank it out. I haven't checked in ages--obviously, you do have it working. Great. Then, if that's what your client wants, I understand the why. I really wasn't jerking you around.
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I wanted to have the tweaks in the one file so I don't have to a manually change them every time I convert to mobi.
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Yup, I get it. I don't believe that there's a way to do what you want, not how you want it. Just using media queries
probably wouldn't solve it. I haven't tried, but we use quite a few MQ, and in thinking about it (see my stream-of-consciousness discussion with Tex)...I don't see the "how."
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Of course it doesn't. That's why I wanted to make the dead link disappear on mobi.
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In terms of "tedious and error prone," all we do is remove cover.xhtml. That's it. Make sure that the meta is in place, remove the xhtml, and build. I know that's not what you asked, but in case you're doing something differently..?
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That's what I did. The deadline has passed, so this is now an academic question.
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@Tex2002ans:
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You would just add a class around your "Cover" text in the TOC, and tell it to not display in KF8/MOBI.
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Warning: thinking aloud. So, you'd write a media query, that leaves it for the ePUB, but hides it for the media-KF8 and KF7? That might work. The question is, what happens to the TOC link, which, presumably, goes to the xhtml file OR the id of the cover page, when that page is removed or destroyed in the Kindlegen process? And does it matter? I mean, does it matter if the link is bogus or broken, if it's going to be hidden anyway?
The other quesion is, can you put AMZN media queries in an ePUB and stil have it pass ePUBcheck? Our experiences with AMZ media queries has been that
normally, they affect the ePUB vis-a-vis ePUBcheck.
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If I wasn't clear, I'm sorry. Please just forget about it.
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I was simply trying to understand the "how" of how you built your mobis, and what part of it you were trying to omit. I am constantly surprised at the myriad ways that folks build MOBI files--and that's why I asked.
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