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Old 10-01-2016, 09:46 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by slowsmile View Post
The majority of ebooks out there are epub 2. And would you really expect an indie author to know how to manually and safely format his toc.nx or content.opf?
As I feared: you're totally misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. I am not--as I thought I pretty clearly mentioned before--talking about manually editing the the xml in the ncx or opf file.

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That's a wide assumption and a bad road for any indie author to take (I'm not talking about developers here). And if you manually change the xml within say the toc.ncx then Sigil does not automatically update the content.opf sections for epub 2 ebooks.
Again: not talking about manually editing xml files. Also, there are no edits made to the NCX file that would require updates to the OPF.

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If you use Calibre and if you manually change the formatting in the toc.ncx or the content.opf then it automatically gets updated everywhere in the epub whenever you click Calibre editor's OK button. I love Sigil dearly, but for TOC creation I prefer the Calibre way because its easier and faster.
If you use Sigil's Tools->Table Of Contents->Edit Table Of Contents you will find a dialog that allows you to do the same thing. Create/edit/delete your ToC headings (nest them, unnest them if you like), point them to the page (or ID) you want them to be linked to, click "OK" and Sigil updates the underlying code in the EPUB automatically. Badabing badaboom. You may "prefer" doing it calibre's way, but I'm getting the distinct impression that's only because you don't know there's a similar functionality within Sigil.

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