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Old 10-18-2011, 02:21 PM   #1
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Unhappy New epub ... TOC not working

I am in the process of creating an epub file.

Everything looks good in html format, it looks good in Calibre, works well in Adobe Digital Editions ... but ... when it's transferred to the Sony Reader the TOC doesn't work.

When i click on a specific chapter from the TOC it jumps down to the area just before the page break, instead of just after the page break where the chapter actually starts. I've changed the coding between

page-break-after: always;
and
page-break-before: always;

nothing is working.

Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I would be able to fix it?

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Old 10-19-2011, 03:50 AM   #2
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Since the Sony readers uses ADE, I think is also does not work well in ADE...

Anyway, how did you create your TOC? Could you post your opf and nxc file?
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Old 10-19-2011, 10:50 AM   #3
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My TOC is in my xml file as follows:

<li><a href="#prologue">Prologue</a>
<li><a href="#chapter1">Chapter 1</a>
<li><a href="#chapter2">Chapter 2</a>

Called to:

<span id="prologue"><p class = "chapter">Prologue</p></span>
<span id="chapter1"><p class = "chapter">Chapter 1</p></span>
<span id="chapter2"><p class = "chapter">Chapter 2</p></span>

This is what's in my 'chapter' parameters:

p.chapter
{
page-break-before: always;
margin-top:1em;
margin-bottom:1em;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.5em;
}

I don't have a .nxc file. the .opf file is attached

Please do keep in mind that this is my first ebook ever, so if there's something that i'm majorly missing, please let me know.

I've also tried the "Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents" option in Calibre .... but that didn't help either.

Thanks.
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File Type: opf metadata.opf (1.2 KB, 444 views)
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Old 10-19-2011, 01:06 PM   #4
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Get rid of the span and place the id in the p. It would be better is the p were h2 or h3 anyway since semantics of a a chapter heading is better to be called a heading rather than a paragraph. Then you can drop the class simplifying things further.

The pages are working like you coded them. The id is search for and then the p is encountered resulting in a page break.

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Old 10-19-2011, 01:25 PM   #5
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I agree with DaleDe. Get rid of the spans, they are not necessary and use header tags. After all, that's what they are for.

Also, you say you don't have a toc.ncx? I think you must have, I believe it is a requirement for the inline TOC. Just as a question, why are you making a separate TOC instead of the normal inline TOC?
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Old 10-19-2011, 01:31 PM   #6
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Thank you so much for your help DaleDe. I will try that.

Toxaris, as this is my first ebook, I'm just learning as i go along. I don't really know much about inline TOC's or not ... I just put one in because the book i'm doing has chapters. How do you create an inline TOC? and does it work with every ebook format?
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Old 10-19-2011, 01:44 PM   #7
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No need for IDs. Just have your ToC open the file it should be opening. Given that each chapter should be a separate XML file, just call it as needed.

Also, since this is an ePub, please remove the internal ToC. It's just not needed and doesn't look good. Just do the ToC in toc.ncx. The worst thing done in an ePub is an internal ToC with all the headers linking to this internal ToC. I find that really poor and ugly too. Remember, this is ePub, not mobipocket and ePub does not need a ToC page.

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Old 10-19-2011, 03:09 PM   #8
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oh. um. Each chapter is supposed to be a different file?? I just have one file as the whole manuscript. Is that all totally wrong?? Do I have to go and break everything into its individual sections?
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oh. um. Each chapter is supposed to be a different file?? I just have one file as the whole manuscript. Is that all totally wrong?? Do I have to go and break everything into its individual sections?
Yes, you do. If you don't, it may not work on mobile devices.
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oh. um. Each chapter is supposed to be a different file?? I just have one file as the whole manuscript. Is that all totally wrong?? Do I have to go and break everything into its individual sections?
They do not need to all be in separate files. For use on mobile devices the files should be less than 300KBytes so it really depends on how long the book is and how long each chapter is. There is a free download called Sigil that has its own forum here on MobileRead. It is an excellent tool for creating ePub. It will deal with most of the boiler plate and allow you to worry about the content.

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Thank you so much for all of your help. The epub file as it stands now is at 465KB

I won't be able to test the TOC until tomorrow, so I will post more then. In the meantime I will look into Sigil.
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Sounds like it would need to be split. That's the way to do it to make sure that everything works. Also, if you can get a hold of a reader such as a Sony Reader to make sure everything works that would be good.
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Splitting each chapter in a separate file is usually a good thing to do. It is not always required. It has some advantages, one of them is maintenance.
Your epub will probably give issues, since the uncompressed size is larger than 285kb. That figure is usually a save size. If you split on chapter, almost certain no individual XHTML file will be larger than 285kb.
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Old 10-27-2011, 11:30 AM   #14
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Sorry it's been a while. Thank you all for your help. I got the TOC to work Now i'm on to new things...ie. separating chapters and imbedding fonts See you guys around on the boards.
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On this subject of chapters, if anyone is still around, I'd like to add a question.

I built the TOC of a book in Sigil, but when it was being uploaded to B&N, they said they were not detecting chapters. Anyone know how I can fix this?

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