09-25-2012, 06:29 AM | #1 |
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TOC and the book title
Since I use h1, h2, and h3 heads when writing the title page, Sigil recognizes the title, sub-title, and author & publisher as chapters in the book. What is the best way to head this off? Shall I define h4, h5, and h6 to serve that purpose, or will that just result in having the title TOC'd as a very minor entry?
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09-25-2012, 06:50 AM | #2 | |
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I would however advise you to avoid header tags for things you don't want to appear in the TOC. Headers have structural meanings which go beyond "making the font larger", for instance I believe they are also used by screen readers to partition content. In the books I produce I usually want the title-page to appear in the TOC, so I leave the book title as a differently styled h1 tag, and make classes for the other title page paragraphs which I then style. Last edited by Man Eating Duck; 09-25-2012 at 07:07 AM. |
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09-25-2012, 07:09 AM | #3 |
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You should not use heading tags for things that are not headings.
I use something like: Code:
<p class="title">Book Title</p> <p class="subtitle">Book Subtitle</p> <p class="author">Author</p> <p class="date">Date</p> |
09-25-2012, 07:24 AM | #4 |
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Whatever Jellby says is pretty much the definitive answer
Styling is very much a matter of preference, but here are the definitions I use, renamed according to his example (several definitions, like font-face, are inherited in addition to these): Code:
p.title { font-size : 1.7em; text-align : center; margin : 3.9em 0 0 0; } p.subtitle { font-size : 1.33em; text-align : center; margin : 1em 0 0 0; } p.author { font-size : 1.1em; text-align : center; margin : 2em 0 0 0; } p.date { font-size : 1em; text-align : center; margin : 3em 0 0 0; } Last edited by Man Eating Duck; 09-25-2012 at 09:14 AM. |
09-25-2012, 09:56 AM | #5 | |
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When generating the TOC, there are (un)tick boxes to flag H tags to not be used for the TOC by Sigil IMHO If you just want Size, Weight: you are best using the CSS to control these and NOT H tags (so old school HTML2 ) |
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09-25-2012, 11:39 AM | #6 |
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That's great, thanks. (Yes, I have been unchecking the multiple TOC items for the title page, but it does make me nervous, and separately styling them will cheer me up no end.)
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09-25-2012, 12:56 PM | #7 | |
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All it does it add a sigilNotInTOC class attribute to your heading (so it can remember you excluded it when you re-run the TOC generation), and then it excludes it from the items that will be put into your TOC. If you uncheck the Show TOC Items Only option at the bottom of the dialog you can see the entries are still there, just without a checkmark. |
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