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Jellby · 11-13-2009, 08:42 AM

Sure, any of my ePUBs has it. Try The Picture of Dorian Gray, for instance.

It has an external (off-line) TOC, in the toc.ncx file, and it has an in-line TOC too in Contents.xhtml. In the <spine> element of the OPF file, Contents.xhtml is defined as linear="no", so Calibre will not show this in-line TOC when paging forward or backward through the book, but Calibre can read the TOC from the toc.ncx file.

Other readers may not support the external TOC (and I hope they will then ignore the linear="no"). Yet other readers (like ADE) do support the external TOC and ignore the linear="no", so you actually get the two TOCs there.

11-13-2009, 08:42 AM	#4
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,556 Karma: 19500001 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Sure, any of my ePUBs has it. Try The Picture of Dorian Gray, for instance. It has an external (off-line) TOC, in the toc.ncx file, and it has an in-line TOC too in Contents.xhtml. In the <spine> element of the OPF file, Contents.xhtml is defined as linear="no", so Calibre will not show this in-line TOC when paging forward or backward through the book, but Calibre can read the TOC from the toc.ncx file. Other readers may not support the external TOC (and I hope they will then ignore the linear="no"). Yet other readers (like ADE) do support the external TOC and ignore the linear="no", so you actually get the two TOCs there.