The situation doesn't improve even after D2D's Support supposedly intervening with Apple's eBook reception. The only thing that has changed is the list of 'errors' associated with the table of contents. Here is the latest listing:
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The Table of Contents navigates to incorrect sections. Please make sure it navigates to the exact section indicated in the title.
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EPUB internals validation passed
Table of Contents is not correctly implemented. For example, Chapter 13 has page 159 listed in the Table of Contents but it is on page 160 in the book. Introduction is on page 13, not page 12 as listed in the Table of Contents, etc.. Please check and fix each Table of Contents entry that requires a change.
1- Introduction is on page 13, not page 12. 2 - is on page 27, not 26. Etc... Please fix the issues with the Table of Contents not linking to the correct pages.
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From this, it appears that Apple considers each chapter appears in the book at one page later than is shown in the table of contents.
My problem is that the page numbers must be artifacts of Apple's reception software app. There are no page numbers in my epub2 book and never have been.
There seems to some sort of logical problem here. Apple's software is creating page numbers but somehow creates two different page numbers for each chapter: one from the table of contents and another from the book body material. And they are not happy that these two numbers differ.
In practice, in every app I have tried, a click on the link in the table of contents takes me to the right place in the book.
I wish I could understand why this is happening. Is there some underlying coding inside Sigil at a lower level that the html and CSS ?
All the more curious that for several years, Apple has been happily selling this book in its previous version. Either they didn't create page numbers until recently or something has been introduced by my using more up-to-date versions of Sigil this year.