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Old 02-24-2010, 08:02 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
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The issue here is that this would result in one TOC entry for the chapter number, and another for the chapter title.
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Have you tried either of the OpenOffice ePub plugins in the ePub forum? I'd be curious what people thought of them.
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1. Indeed, OpenOffice offers you one entry for one TOC entry and only one. (It could be a paragraph though). Is this a major problem?

To make appear visually the structure, you also can use indents for TOCs.
Ex: No indent for H1, 0,5cm for H2, 1cm for H3. (see image)
On the other hand, OpenOffice provides you instantly with hypertext links for TOC entries and they are so handy with ebooks..

2. The OpenOffice plugins for EPUB are not here yet.
Escape is just another big piece of software, so I keep clear from it. Writer2epub is just starting.

For the time being, I produce PDF for my screen size and ODT for the others. I feel no hurry because on my Sony at least, EPUB cannot yet use justified text.

3. What's the EPUB solution for 600 footnotes on a 800 pages book? (Not at all an extreme case, It happens so for many history books).

With OpenOffice I could at least, before trying to hand over to calibre to format an epub, group all the footnotes at the end of the document. It's done instantly this way: (in French for me sorry)
Menu: Outils/Notes de bas de page/Position.. select Fin de Document (and I also can modify instantly the numbering for all footnotes).

This is not perfect for sure but it's a solution. How to avoid to scatter these many footnotes all along a book ?
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