Manually entering table of contents

[itfh]

The heuristic processing feature is super cool, but still has issues recognizing chapters on a totally unformatted PDF where the chapters are not demarcated as "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2," etc. This is totally understandable, since the book does not contain the normal <h1>, <h2> tags that heuristic processing bases its search on. I'm trying to make a workaround because I already know the chapter titles. Is there a way to manually enter a table of contents (i.e., chapter title strings) into the xpath search field and have the heuristic processing search via specific strings? Thanks!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by itfh

The heuristic processing feature is super cool, but still has issues recognizing chapters on a totally unformatted PDF where the chapters are not demarcated as "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2," etc. This is totally understandable, since the book does not contain the normal <h1>, <h2> tags that heuristic processing bases its search on. I'm trying to make a workaround because I already know the chapter titles. Is there a way to manually enter a table of contents (i.e., chapter title strings) into the xpath search field and have the heuristic processing search via specific strings? Thanks!

There is the 'Edit the TOC' icon (looks like a T game tile).
You may need to add it to your toolbar menu. Preferences: Toolbars: (pick you choices) Place the icon from the list on the Left

[itfh]

Originally Posted by theducks

There is the 'Edit the TOC' icon (looks like a T game tile).
You may need to add it to your toolbar menu. Preferences: Toolbars: (pick you choices) Place the icon from the list on the Left

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll elaborate a bit on a workaround I figured out, thanks to theducks' suggestion:

Adding the 'Edit the TOC' button to your toolbar is definitely the right thing to do. The thing is, in order to edit the TOC the book has to be in the EPUB format. So, the first step is to convert your book to EPUB. Once that is done, you can manually enter a table of contents with the 'Edit the TOC' button. This will open a menu that allows you to add and remove TOC entries manually. To delete entries, select the one to be deleted and click the little green recycling arrow button. To add entries, select "Create new entry" or "New Entry Above/Below/Inside this entry" depending on if you initially started with zero or nonzero entries. When creating a new entry, you can link to indices that Calibre found during heuristic processing (so cool). Once you've entered a table to your satisfaction, convert the book from EPUB to your desired format (in my case, MOBI). If the conversion doesn't seem to work, double check that you've converted from your EPUB because the original format (in my case, PDF), does not contain the new manually entered TOC, only the EPUB does!

So glad I found a workaround, and thanks again for your help theducks

[theducks]

Originally Posted by itfh

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll elaborate a bit on a workaround I figured out, thanks to theducks' suggestion:

Adding the 'Edit the TOC' button to your toolbar is definitely the right thing to do. The thing is, in order to edit the TOC the book has to be in the EPUB format. So, the first step is to convert your book to EPUB. Once that is done, you can manually enter a table of contents with the 'Edit the TOC' button. This will open a menu that allows you to add and remove TOC entries manually. To delete entries, select the one to be deleted and click the little green recycling arrow button. To add entries, select "Create new entry" or "New Entry Above/Below/Inside this entry" depending on if you initially started with zero or nonzero entries. When creating a new entry, you can link to indices that Calibre found during heuristic processing (so cool). Once you've entered a table to your satisfaction, convert the book from EPUB to your desired format (in my case, MOBI). If the conversion doesn't seem to work, double check that you've converted from your EPUB because the original format (in my case, PDF), does not contain the new manually entered TOC, only the EPUB does!

So glad I found a workaround, and thanks again for your help theducks

IMHO AZW3 is the better format for modern K's (but I am not sure if A' allows those to be emailed. )I strictly use USB

[itfh]

Hm, I'm having a slightly different problem with the TOC now. The EPUB TOC looks perfect (expected, because that was manually entered) while the MOBI TOC has one link of about 80 (it's a long book) that refuses to point to the correct location--it points to some random location a couple chapters earlier. I verified that the chapter link points to the right index in the EPUB body of the book, and I tried deleting that chapter link and re-adding it, but to no avail. I also checked to make sure that when converting to MOBI the max number of chapters exceeds the number that I currently have (set it to a ridiculously high number, like 100) Seen this happen before?