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chyron8472 · 02-16-2011, 10:00 PM

What strether said.

I asked this question at some point, and Kovid himself said that the "chapter markers" will work properly if you have a properly formatted Table of Contents.

This means a few things for your conversion settings:

For the original ebook, if you have working chapter markers and a working TOC, you should not have "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" checked, so that Calibre doesn't modify either the chapter markers or the TOC
OR for the original ebook, If you have a Table of Contents, but no chapter markers, it's possible that the NCX file embedded in the ebook is missing, so you should have "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" checked, but also have "Do not add Table of Contents to book" checked in the MOBI Output section, so that the chapter markers use the NCX file Calibre created, but the book browses to the front of the book instead of the back, when navigating to the TOC.
OR for the original ebook, if you have chapter markers, but no Table of Contents, it's possible that the NCX file is working, but whomever published the ebook didn't create a TOC. In this case, you'll need to have settings as though the chapter markers are not there in the original ebook, because when Calibre creates a TOC, it will restructure the chapter markers as well.
OR for the original ebook, if you find that only some chapters have markers while others don't, it's possible that the NCX file has multi-level chapters. MOBI files generated from Calibre sometimes don't play well with these when creating chapter markers (from my experience.) In this circumstance, what you need to do is to convert the ebook to ePub; edit the ebook in Sigil; open the Table of Contents Editor window in Sigil and verify that the appropriate chapters are listed; then save the file and convert it from ePub to MOBI. This process should move the entries in the NCX file to all be on one level.

02-16-2011, 10:00 PM	#4
chyron8472 Groupie Posts: 180 Karma: 558490 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 5, Amazon Fire 5th Gen, Moto Z Play Droid	What strether said. I asked this question at some point, and Kovid himself said that the "chapter markers" will work properly if you have a properly formatted Table of Contents. This means a few things for your conversion settings: For the original ebook, if you have working chapter markers and a working TOC, you should not have "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" checked, so that Calibre doesn't modify either the chapter markers or the TOC OR for the original ebook, If you have a Table of Contents, but no chapter markers, it's possible that the NCX file embedded in the ebook is missing, so you should have "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" checked, but also have "Do not add Table of Contents to book" checked in the MOBI Output section, so that the chapter markers use the NCX file Calibre created, but the book browses to the front of the book instead of the back, when navigating to the TOC. OR for the original ebook, if you have chapter markers, but no Table of Contents, it's possible that the NCX file is working, but whomever published the ebook didn't create a TOC. In this case, you'll need to have settings as though the chapter markers are not there in the original ebook, because when Calibre creates a TOC, it will restructure the chapter markers as well. OR for the original ebook, if you find that only some chapters have markers while others don't, it's possible that the NCX file has multi-level chapters. MOBI files generated from Calibre sometimes don't play well with these when creating chapter markers (from my experience.) In this circumstance, what you need to do is to convert the ebook to ePub; edit the ebook in Sigil; open the Table of Contents Editor window in Sigil and verify that the appropriate chapters are listed; then save the file and convert it from ePub to MOBI. This process should move the entries in the NCX file to all be on one level. Last edited by chyron8472; 02-16-2011 at 10:12 PM.