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Old 07-08-2007, 12:26 PM   #7
Dr. Drib
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I compile a TOC both ways, it just depends

Some history here: Moby Dick was originally compiled from two different sources, both HTML, and both not quite correct in the way that Moby Dick had been published.

Moby Dick has Chapter numbers only (on the HTML). However, I found a site that had all the chapter numbers on the left and on the right the names of those chapter numbers (again, this was in HTML). I copied and pasted it onto my Moby Dick file.

Fortunately, only about 5 or 6 chapter names were too long, so I decided to "split" the chapter number and immediately on the next line I put the Chapter Name (for that chapter number).

Still about 2 chapter names were too long, so I decided to use Annotation and played with point 9 and then point 8. However, there was another problem, as detailed in my upload: about 3 or 4 chapters designated as TITLE - even though they looked perfect before compiling - did not behave as TITLES. I was dumbfounded. (I eventually found a way around that - a lot of retyping, etc.)

That still left the problem with the TOC, in that the chapters did not link back to the proper TOC page. I got rid of ANNOTATIONS completely from the TOC and changed it back to PARAGRAPH. I still had the recurring problem with TITLES not behaving as tittles - forced page break, centered, and title style -- even though, as I mentioned, it all looked perfect before compiling it into a Bbeb book.

Total frustration. And then, after getting everything working -- "crippled" to work perfectly - I accidentally hit the OPEN EMPTY FILE button. Argggghgghghggh!!!!!

I think, in looking back on this, I was dealing with two problems: buried HTML code -- which I know nothing about, and MAYBE (perhaps not?) a bug in ANNOTATIONS when one wants to use it as a TOC style.

Anyway, Moby Dick now looks fine - somehow - and is located in the upload section.

I hope this long explanation helps. Let me know if I can clarify a point or two to help.

Don

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