Inactive TOC on a Kindle-3? - Page 2

DMSmillie · 03-09-2011, 01:55 AM

No, those navigation point ticks on the progress bar are generated by the Kindle from the NCX file.

lindsayw · 03-10-2011, 02:04 AM

Yes, the toc.ncx file governs the creation of the ticks... you don't have to have a tick for every chapter, especially in large books with, say, 40-odd chapters. You just decide which chapters are important "break points" in the story. Here is an extract from my toc.ncx, just for the first tick point:
<navPoint id="chap1" playOrder="1">
<navLabel><text>1: Old Flame</text></navLabel>
<content src="cocoon-01.html" />
</navPoint>
...but the hand-coded toc.ncx file just isn't included with my other content files when importing and assembling via Calibre, so I don't get any ticks. Right now I am trying to figure how to import all my content into Sigil, so I can output an ePub file that could be then converted to MOBI complete with the original toc.ncx file. My main problem is that all my content was hand-coded in html and Sigil can't see it... it has to be in xhtml.

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03-09-2011, 01:55 AM	#16
DMSmillie Enquiring Mind Posts: 562 Karma: 42350 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: London, UK Device: Kindle 3 (WiFi)	No, those navigation point ticks on the progress bar are generated by the Kindle from the NCX file.

03-10-2011, 02:04 AM	#17
lindsayw Author from pBook days Posts: 49 Karma: 10782 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kindle-3-Keyboard; 8" Android Tablet	Yes, the toc.ncx file governs the creation of the ticks... you don't have to have a tick for every chapter, especially in large books with, say, 40-odd chapters. You just decide which chapters are important "break points" in the story. Here is an extract from my toc.ncx, just for the first tick point: <navPoint id="chap1" playOrder="1"> <navLabel><text>1: Old Flame</text></navLabel> <content src="cocoon-01.html" /> </navPoint> ...but the hand-coded toc.ncx file just isn't included with my other content files when importing and assembling via Calibre, so I don't get any ticks. Right now I am trying to figure how to import all my content into Sigil, so I can output an ePub file that could be then converted to MOBI complete with the original toc.ncx file. My main problem is that all my content was hand-coded in html and Sigil can't see it... it has to be in xhtml.

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