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Originally Posted by MicroDrie
It's not meant to be rude, but you organize a book with chapters in a certain order that you rearrange in the table of contents? Why can't you just split the book into two parts, namely (Part 1) Boring and (Part 2) Fun Days? By giving the current chapters and higher tag (title = <h1>, part 1 or part2 = <h2> and chapters like <h3>, it all goes automatically. Or are you afraid to tell the punchline why you have a chapter division in the two parts of Boring and Fun Days?
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Don't be silly. It's a bit like a topic index. You have the TOC--chapter 1, 2, 3...and so on and then a cross-referended index that selects from within the content, not necessarily and in fact, deliberately not, in the same sequential order.
The simplest answer (in eBooks and everything else in life) is Occam's Razor meets a straight line--just make a SECOND "TOC" or "Topic Index" or cross-referenced whatever. All this Sturm und Drang over making the NCX do this or that seems unwarranted.
I haven't gone back and re-read this entire thread--presumably, someone somewhere (vis the Part II thing above) suggested just putting HIDDEN text in the content and pointing the NCX to it? We used to do that all the time with Sigil. When I was new, wet behind the ears and just learnin' mah letters (ePUB) I used to LUV that I could easily create non-displaying content that I could slap in a TOC. Why not simply use a hidden heading, on page whatever and point the NCX to it? Happily, the NCX doesn't
care about the text formatting, so...is there some reason that this wouldn't work? (n.b.: this is a different question in this discussion than the random sequencing question that MicroDrie was talking about...I'm speaking to Renate's question.) Or have I forgotten something?
Hitch