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Old 02-26-2019, 10:17 PM   #189
davidfor
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Rather than trying to wrangle the Kobo firmware it might be easier to add it as an extra option in KoboTouch to be called during send-to-device. A bit like 'Modify CSS', but this would be 'Modify TOC'.

I think calibre's TOC functions could be used to add some kind of pseudo-indentation padding as a prefix to each TOC entry's text.

This would only work for sideloaded epub/kepub, of course. Not necessarily the most elegant solution, but it might suffice.
Ugly, but it would work. And the attached screenshot is a quick edit of the database to prefix the ToC entries with two em-dashes for each level. I tried spaces, but they don't show up. Non-breaking spaces probably will, but I can't be bothered to work out how to enter them.

And the space problem makes me wonder if the levels are implemented but spaces are used. I hope not. It's the sort of thing I'd do during development but hopefully it would have been noticed before now.

Also, when doing this, I discovered that the device I looked at before had no sideloaded kepubs on it. The above screenshot was for a sideloaded kepub and the Depth column was populated.

I'll have to think about this for the driver. I might do a quick-and-dirty addition to the Kobo Utilities to do this for books that have the depth column set. That would give a quick way for people to see it and give an opinion on whether it is a good idea. I also have to rewrite my ToC updater so it can be released. That would be another place to do something like this.
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