Complete Works of Plato - A PDF Header Question

[Blaineoreski]

Hi,

In the Complete Works of Plato there are...many works!

Right now, using the following in the header for Epub to PDF conversion

<header style="justify-content: flex-end; color: gray; font-size: xx-small;padding-top: 20px;"><div class="odd-page"><i>_TITLE_, _SECTION_</i></div></header>

on page one of the Republic I see:

Complete Works, Republic

and on page two:

Complete Works, Book I

And, so it goes. Without knowing what the work is it's pretty easy to get lost. Book I of...what?

In a collected work such as this, is there any value I can add to the PDF converted output header fields so that the subsequent pages would read:

Complete Works, Republic, Book I

So that the _TITLE_ of the individual book included within the collected works is itself also shown in the header.

Sincerely,

Reski

[kovidgoyal]

Use _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ as described here: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...verting-to-pdf

[Blaineoreski]

Dr. K!

W E A R E N O T W O R T H Y ! ! W E A R E N O T W O R T H Y ! ! ! Sir! You've basically just thought of EVRYTHING!

THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

Reski

[Blaineoreski]

Hello Dr. Goyal!

Please can I ask a follow up? I'm stuck reading some clunky academic text with REALLY long chapters. I can see many "subsection" headings within the chapters as I read. Things like

"Orwell's World"

"The Spanish Civil War"

these are just SUB-headings in otherwise VERY long chapters. Now, the subheadings themselves, are NOT within the table of contents. Using _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ DOES grab the INITIAL sub-sections of the book. But, what about these OTHER wee smaller subsections? Basically bolded sub-sub-divisions of the chapter, but that aren't noted in the table of contents.

Any way to get these into the header?

Sincerely,

Blaine

[kovidgoyal]

Use _SECTION_ but it will only correspond to sections in the table of contents. You can thave sections not in the table of contents in the header/footer.

[Blaineoreski]

Hi, Kovid!

Ah! Got it. OK. If it's not in the TOC then it can't get into the header/footer.

Hmmm...what if I EDITED the table of contents. Would that work?

Sincerely,

Blaine

[kovidgoyal]

As long as something is in the ToC you can add it via _SECTION_ it doesnt matter how it got into the ToC.

[Blaineoreski]

Hi Kovid,

Yes! Got it. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely,

Blaine