Difficulty with TOC

[mt.msla]

I'm having a lot of difficulty with creating a TOC that works for me. Please help if you can.

I want it to be like this (the __ are SPACES I am just rushing to get this out before I go to our Missions conference at church tonight)

THE OLD TESTAMENT
__GENESIS
__EXODUS
__LEVITICUS
....
THE NEW TESTAMENT
__MATTHEW
__MARK
__LUKE

I don't need the chapter titles to expand, just the OT and NT headers. But I can't get it to work properly.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Kindle Previewer keeps erroring on this:

Type | Description
-------------------
Error E24011: TOC section scope is not included in the parent chapter: GENESIS
Error E24001: The table of content could not be built.
Status:Book conversion failed

I don't know what to do to fix it.

In other words, the OT and NT are headings with dropdowns for the individual chapters...

Thank you for any assistance.

[Turtle91]

If you are using Sigil's auto ToC generator it should automatically create those indents/expansions.
Just use Tools/Table of Contents/Generate Table of Contents (Ctrl-T) and it will automagically create the ToC which you can then edit as needed.
It basis that creation on your proper use of heading tags <h1-6> to denote the hierarchy within the document.

for example:

<h3>THE OLD TESTAMENT</h3>
<h4>GENESIS</h4>
<h5>Chapter 1</h5>
<h5>Chapter 2</h5>
...
<h4>EXODUS</h4>
<h5>Chapter 1</h5>
<h5>Chapter 2</h5>
...
<h4>LEVITICUS</h4>
<h5>Chapter 1</h5>
<h5>Chapter 2</h5>
...

<h3>THE NEW TESTAMENT</h3>
<h4>MATTHEW</h4>
<h5>Chapter 1</h5>
<h5>Chapter 2</h5>
...
<h4>MARK</h4>
<h5>Chapter 1</h5>
<h5>Chapter 2</h5>
...
<h4>LUKE</h4>
<h5>Chapter 1</h5>
<h5>Chapter 2</h5>
...

[mt.msla]

I've pursued other options. Please delete this thread if necessary.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mt.msla

I've pursued other options. Please delete this thread if necessary.

It might help others if you posted what these other options are.

[mt.msla]

Well I just decided to use a flattened TOC instead of nesting the OT and NT headers.

(oh well)

So nothing exciting really.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by mt.msla

Well I just decided to use a flattened TOC instead of nesting the OT and NT headers.

(oh well)

So nothing exciting really.

This is obviously water under the bridge, but if you want to re-attack at a later date....and if you HAVEN'T already used the semantically correct <h1-6> tags, then, assuming you've used consistent classes, changing to the correct <h> tags is a fairly trivial find/replace.

The benefit of using the <h> tags, instead of <p class="newchapter"> (or somesuch), is that reading devices/apps can pick up on the standard, and semantically correct, markup for their proper functionality (eg disability or text-to-speech software)... and the editing process (Sigil or Calibre) can use automated tools to make your life MUCH easier.

Cheers!


P.S. Just in case you were wondering if I could work in a few more commas,,,,,,,