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Old 10-16-2020, 05:38 PM   #5
JJ Johnson
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
If you want to eyeball a well formed epub 2 or epub 3 you could use Calibre's editor or Sigil; I use the latter. Add an h2 at the start of each file. Then, in Sigil, use Ctl-T to generate a table of contents from the h2 tags. I prefer to make epub 3s so after I generate the table of contents, in Sigil's Tools menu I run the first two items in the Tools > Epub 3 tools menu; Generate ... and Update ... so that I get the optional fallback that jhowell mentioned. With Sigil you can have it start a new epub as either epub 3 or epub 2
Looks like I have a bit more work to do than I thought. I take it, then, that chapter titles are typically displayed in H2 tags? Is that mostly just an Sigil/Calibre application convention, or part of some standard?

I'm using epub 3. I only have a need to ever view these books on my Kobo, so I'm not too worried about backward compatibility or publishing these books. So this is mostly an exercise in learning a bit about epub structure, and also a means of honing my python skills.

I'm still very fuzzy on the interplay between this navigation file, a TOC page, and the manifest and spine portions of the content.opf files. I'm sure I'll have more questions.
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