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Originally Posted by BobK99
Thanks everyone. I obviously need to do more homework. To answer Hitch's last three questions: never tried, never tried, didn't set it (took the default)
Obviously a case of RTFM, but which one? I have the Sigil Manual, KDP Guidelines, and Building Your Book for Kindle. But refs in them to OPF went over my head.
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Bob:
I can't speak to your other issues--seriously, if your book is failing compile, that's unrelated to the start issue itself, and you should try to fix that before putting the book on sale. I don't speak lightly--we have thousands of books up on Amazon that my biz has produced, and trust me, that kind of stuff can really come back and bite you in the keister.
HOWEVER: in Sigil, please just pick the point (the FILE, right--you likely have a file for your frontmatter, a file for each chapter, yadda), where you want the book to open and use the semantics to set it to TEXT. So, say you want the title page to be your start location? Instead of using the TitlePage semantic, use TEXT. That will set the start location for your Kindle book when you Kindlegen it. ;-) IF you do not have separate files, then you have to fiddle with the OPF; create an id somewhere and then set the TEXT Guide item in the OPF to that location, i.e, set an element (say, the title page title) to id="start" and then set the Guide item to that location, with the
type being TEXT. Right? D'you know what I mean?
Does that help? Look at how Sigil sets...hmmm...I think it still sets the cover guide item automatically, although I might be lying. Meme, or Ducky, am I lying?
Hitch