Questions tagged [table-of-contents]
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Best practice for ebook with large number of chapters (e.g. in thousands)
I am trying to create an ebook with about 1300 chapters. The content itself is not that large (~7MB of raw text), but they are broken down over 1300 chapters or so. Each chapter is about 20-40 short ...
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How to make a ToC with partial links
For KDP, I want to create a table of contents with links for chapters (header 1) only but no links for subtitles (header 2) within chapters. The purpose is to shorten the table of contents, as I have ...
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TOC Links not going to the correct place
I am using kindle create. The TOC looks as I would expect it to though it does spill over on to a second screen which displays only the final two chapters. Sometimes when I click on a chapter number ...
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How to use a macro or Find/Replace to make ToC link targets into links themselves pointing back to the ToC in Libreoffice?
I am exporting a very large document (1400+ pages) to ebook, and have already worked out the Table of Contents (ToC) as hyperlinks to all the chapters and sections, and the hyperlinks work fine after ...
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Trying to repair unresolved hyperlinks in TOCs that crop up from time to time in conversions
I am converting some of my eBooks to EPUB and using Amazon's Preview app to confirm they're ok to send to them via the email to Kindle collection method.
Commonly my most reoccurring error has to do ...
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Is it possible to add a Table of Contents to a CBZ file for my comics?
I want to save a volume of a comic with the table of contents showing each chapter.
Is that possible?
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How to remove extraneous page numbers from ePub TOC
I've created this epub file as an export from an Indesign file, and it's got two problems that I can see immediately:
The ToC includes page numbers after the chapter titles, even though I've created ...
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Is there a tool for heading detection?
Given a PDF without a TOC or bookmarks, is there a way to create a TOC by automatically detecting the headings?
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How to make the entries of an existing table of contents clickable as link to the corresponding pages?
I have many eBooks as PDF from SpringerLink, which I use for research purposes. The eBooks have indeed a table of contents (with more than 50 entries sometimes), but unfortunately it is not clickable. ...
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Fix broken eBook Table of Contents?
The Table of Contents of this .ePub file seems to incorrectly link to one page previous to the desired page. For instance if 'Part 2' is clicked, it directs to the last page of 'Part 1'. I have looked ...
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Hash (#) in filename loses chapter information when converted with calibre
I use calibre's ebook-convert to convert HTML files into MOBI files. I have found that if the HTML filename contains a hash-sign (#), then the "chapter structure" of the generated MOBI file is broken. ...
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Selective substrings in TOC - calibre
I have 100 HTML files with a structure like this:
<div id="message-1">14 April 2015</div>
<div id="message-2">16 April 2015</div>
<div id="message-3">1 June 2015</div&...
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How to add a clickable table of contents in a book bought from Amazon Kindle?
The book that I bought from Amazon Kindle has thousand of pages and the table of contents is very rough; it has only links to the main chapter number (chapter 1, 2, and so on). I would like to add the ...
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Copy Chapter Numbers And Titles from TOC to Individual Chapters
All of the chapters in my EPUB contain only the text of the chapter and do not have the chapter number or the chapter title at the beginning of the body.
The Table of Contents file, (nav.xhtml) has ...
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Nested menus in Mobi
I've created an epub that works great. It has daily meditations, for a total of 366. In my epub, the TOC is nested, so if I want to go to October 15, I click on October, the dates expand out 1 - 31, ...
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What are "open" and "closed" settings in PDF bookmarks?
This is an excerpt extracted from the PDF bookmark, using JPdfBookmarks:
Believe It or Not: Scientific Progress!?/44,Black,notBold,notItalic,closed,FitPage
The Whole Is More Than the Sum of ...
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xpath in the calibre editor
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In some search operations in calibre one can use an xpath expression to get the values for particular tags, i.e. the following expression:
//h:div[re:test(@class, "figbox", "i")]
selects ...
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Return links for Table of Contents list and in-book headings
I'm using Notepad++ to format my first novel in HTML before converting it to MOBI and/or ePUB.
I've done the code to make the items on my Table of Contents into live links and they all take me to ...
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How to OCR tables of contents to proper outputs?
Usually when OCR an table of content the columns are separated by a large space, so the outputs are not properly order. For example, for an table like this:
The output would be:
The Rank Function
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Automatic creation of bookmarks from Table Of Content
I've got this big problem: I have a PDF book with, say, 4 chapters and a bunch of paragraphs in each chapters. At the begenning of the book there is a non-clickable index with chapters, paragraphs and ...
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How to get book texts difference of two editions of ebook, to read only changes?
I got an ebook and have read it, then found there exists new edition if it, got it too, and not surprisingly found it shares much of text with previous edition.
Although there exist some changes too, ...
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ePub 3: Finding the Navigation document
I've been looking at a few different ePub3s (programatically, not through ePub-specific software), and notive that the navigation document containing the TOC doesn't seem to be constantly named.
Is ...
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Why am I getting spurious TOC entries in Calibre?
I'm converting an RTF document to epub (and mobi) and am trying to extract a table of contents.
All of my chapters start with the word "CHAPTER" in all caps, but are not tagged in any special way. ...
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Calibre ignores headings from docx and html
After some update, Calibre began to ignore the document's structure while converting docx or htm to epub and mobi. Before that, everything was OK, so I could navigate my ebooks as easily as the source ...
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Table of Contents just contains lots of "New Article N" entries
I'm using QuarkXPress 2017 to create a Kindle ebook based on a print layout that someone else has created for commercial printing. Everything's going fine apart from the Table of Contents; when I load ...
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Epub without a Table of Contents, is it possible?
Ideally, I'd like to not have a ToC. But I understand that without one, an epub won't validate. Is there any way to create a ToC with no content, including no ToC header?
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My HTML toc is not showing up in Calbre MOBI output
My docx has an HTML linked TOC. I select Do Not Include table of contents and the output MOBI has the Go To Table of Contents greyed out. If I leave the Do Not include Table of Contents blank then the ...
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Sub-chapters based on h2 tags in ePub file
I have an ePub file that I generate in which I have chapters and sub-chapters.
I found here an example of how to create sub-chapters in the ncx file.
I quote here the answer of @macjohn
<meta ...
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Can an EPUB 3.0 book contain two TOCs?
I have a book to convert to EPUB 3.0 and want to give the reader two ways to navigate through the book (two different table of contents). Is there any way to do that?
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How to make the Contents display in the GO TO window?
This is my table of contents:
<div style="page-break-before: always;"></div>
<h2><a name="TOC">Contents</a></h2>
<div class="center">
<p class="...
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Readers that support EPUB 3 page numbers
We are adding page numbers to our epubs according to the spec defined here.
We would like to test this functionality though, are there any readers that support page numbers?
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How to convert tagged articles into a single ebook without losing tags for reading on kindle?
We had 1000+ (quite lengthy) articles lying in our old computers in .doc (non-uniformly named) format in our organization. To make them accessible, We've taken the painful task of setting up a drupal ...
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Referencing cover, title, and dedication pages in ePub navigational TOC
I am preparing a book for ePub conversion in Indesign CC 2014. I have noticed almost all professional ePub eBooks have their TOCs reference every single page starting with the cover page. In print, ...
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NCX TOC - Hide the external TOC in EPUB 2?
Is there a way to completely remove or deactivate the external TOC? Would the code be written in the NCX file or elsewhere? If code could be provided that would be helpful as well.
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Is it possible to add a Table of Contents to a CBZ file?
Like the title says, is it possible to add something like a Table of Contents to a .cbz file, maybe as an additional text file used to better navigate the content? And if it is, how should it be ...
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How easy is it to add a table of contents to an epub book?
Some text editors (e.g. MS Word, or Atlassian Confluence Wiki editor) make it trivial to add a table of contents to a text that was properly formatted (e.g. has headings/chapter titles), by merely ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I have many technical PDF ebooks where there are no chapters (no clickable table of contents or other means for quick navigation through a document) and therefore it's really painful to search for ...