TOC - Categories and articles like Calibre News

[alexvf]

Hi,

Almost every Magazine or News source fetched using Calibre comes with a wonderful menu that displays categories on the left and articles on the right.
We can choose a category and browse the article's titles of that category.

Can anyone tell me how can I create such a menu in HTML, so that it will work on my Kindle after converting the HTML to MOBI?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
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Alex

[user_none]

Wrong section.

I assume you're referring to reading a downloaded news item on your Kindle when you say, "displays categories on the left and articles on the right." This is a feature of the Kindle and requires the MOBI file to be structured in a particular way. There is no way to have calibre create output using this structure other than through the download new area. Also, there are some issues with the current implementation and how the books behave on the Kindle 3.1 firmware.

[alexvf]

Hi user_none,

Originally Posted by user_none

This is a feature of the Kindle and requires the MOBI file to be structured in a particular way. There is no way to have calibre create output using this structure other than through the download new area.

What I was asking for is help with the structure that you mention.

I want to create a Kindle document myself, using HTML (not using Calibre).
And I was asking if somebody knew how to structure that kind of menu in HTML because I would like to use it in my document.

I would use Calibre only after, to convert the finished HTML to MOBI.

Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
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Alex

[user_none]

You don't structure the HTML in any particular way. You have to tell Kindlegen to generate a periodical using a special flag in the OPF.

see this bug. I've attached a zip file that has an example book. The .ncx and the .opf are what you need to worry about.

The ncx must follow the format:

<navPoint class="periodical">
    <navPoint class="section" id="1">
        <navPoint class="article" id="1_1" playOrder="1">
...

[alexvf]

Thanks a lot, user_none!
This is exactly what I was looking for.

Regards,
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Alex