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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
Read to me more as a criticism of Guido's book than your choice to use Sigil. It's been a while since I've looked at it, but I think I recall the guide calling for e.g. paragraph classes for headings. That'll cause the TOC issues you're having, on top of just being semantically wrong.
Still going off memory, but I think he recommends that roundtripping thing of copying your entire MSS into a separate text file to rip out all the styling. That's actually sorta disastrous if you DID set up your Word file with proper styles. So, just kinda take guidance from that source with a grain of salt.
Again, acknowledging I may be misremembering, and also it's possible the book has different info compared to the blog guide. I never looked at the book, but I did poke around on the blog some years ago.
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Philip:
Firstly, it's from 2014 and even
if it was brilliant then, we've all moved light years beyond that in the last 6 years. I'm not going to get into whether Guido's Guide was great or not; I do remember, with some...
asperity...his blithe assertion that as far back as 2010, you could use
ems to size images for Kindle, a claim he made on his website and NEVER backed up when challenged. (And, in case anyone is confused, most certainly did not work then and didn't for
years. And is still dicey for images for Kindle today, too, but...)
Given the significant, nay, sea-changes in eBook formatting since 2014, personally, I'd be seeking more up-to-date info, but, hey, that's just me.
Hitch