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Old 05-07-2022, 03:03 PM   #1
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Question How do I correctly define the linear page ordering in my book?
Hi

I'm working on a big book project (a custom bible) and I'm a little confused about the page ordering.

I've created my own Table of Contents file using the proper NCX structure, with all the testaments/books/chapters in the order they should be displayed.. and I've taken great care to make sure the playOrder attribute in the toc.ncx navPoint nodes follow the correct progression as a reader would expect.

I assumed this playOrder attribute would be used to define the linear progression of my book when I flip from page to page.. but it does not.

It's rendering my toc.xhtml first, then the cover.xhtml, and then continues through all of my other xhtml files in alphanumeric order.. totally ignoring the playOrder I defined in the toc.ncx.

Is there a way (preferably through markup) I can explicitly define the linear progression of the xhtml files, or do my .xhtml files need to be named sequentially in sigil?

I'm not quite understanding how this works.

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Old 05-07-2022, 03:13 PM   #2
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HTML files are presented in the order set by the spine inside of the opf file.
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Old 05-07-2022, 03:52 PM   #3
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HTML files are presented in the order set by the spine inside of the opf file.
OH! I get it now. I tried reordering the items in the opf file, but I didn't scroll down far enough to see the Spine section. I was reordering the initial file definitions and it wasn't doing anything.

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Just so you know: reordering the xhtml files in Sigil's Book Browser, will automatically reorder the spine section of the opf file to match.
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Just so you know: reordering the xhtml files in Sigil's Book Browser, will automatically reorder the spine section of the opf file to match.
ie. just drag your cover.xhtml file to the #2 position, release, then drag it back to the #1 position (or wherever it was originally. The spine section is automagically updated.
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Just so you know: reordering the xhtml files in Sigil's Book Browser, will automatically reorder the spine section of the opf file to match.
This is what I've always done. It seemed magical at first, but like all things we do, it soon became commonplace.
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