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jasonjmb · 04-07-2017, 05:22 PM

Hi, I hope I am posting my question in the right section. My question has to do with nav.xhtml and epub 3.0.

I export my books from LibreOffice using eLaix. It used to export in epub 2.0 and everything was fine. I use Sigil to generate both the logical as well as html table of contents.

Now eLaix started exporting in epub 3.0. Sigil does not allow manually changing it back to 2.0 and I am not sure what to do with the html toc.

The trouble maker is nav.xhtml. Since epub 3.0 requires this file, Sigil generates it but takes it out of the linear order in the spine. From what I've read, some devices will ignore this and still display it. So I am faced with two options:

1. Use Sigil to generate the html toc (TOC.xhtml) and delete nav.xhtml from the spine so that it never shows up.

2. Use nav.xhtml as the html toc (forget about TOC.xhtml) and change its "linear" property to yes.

Am I understanding the situation correctly? Any recommendations?

04-07-2017, 05:22 PM	#1
jasonjmb Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2017 Device: kindle	html toc with epub 3.0 Hi, I hope I am posting my question in the right section. My question has to do with nav.xhtml and epub 3.0. I export my books from LibreOffice using eLaix. It used to export in epub 2.0 and everything was fine. I use Sigil to generate both the logical as well as html table of contents. Now eLaix started exporting in epub 3.0. Sigil does not allow manually changing it back to 2.0 and I am not sure what to do with the html toc. The trouble maker is nav.xhtml. Since epub 3.0 requires this file, Sigil generates it but takes it out of the linear order in the spine. From what I've read, some devices will ignore this and still display it. So I am faced with two options: 1. Use Sigil to generate the html toc (TOC.xhtml) and delete nav.xhtml from the spine so that it never shows up. 2. Use nav.xhtml as the html toc (forget about TOC.xhtml) and change its "linear" property to yes. Am I understanding the situation correctly? Any recommendations?