Hi Dave.

Let me have a look at this over the weekend. I know the problem you're talking 
about having seen it myself. If you could send me your stylesheet I'll take a 
look. Keith's right in that the change is quite hard in the current XSL. Let's 
see what can be done

cheers

nic


On 4 Mar 2011, at 10:45, redlettucemail wrote:

> Nic,
> This is a re-post. Keith's response was "Making the changes you describe 
> would be fairly straightforward by hand in the EPUB file itself but would be 
> very complex in the DocBook-XSL." I can send samples of my stylesheet if 
> required; just unsure what would be useful at this stage.
>  
> I'm creating an epub with v 1.76 of the stylesheets and have included a cover 
> image and titlepage. Both the cover image and all titlepage elements are 
> specified within d:book/info. What I want in an epub is for the side 
> navigation panel (toc.ncx) and the bottom nav buttons to navigate from cover 
> image > titlepage > preface; so I need a toc link that says "cover" which 
> will link to the cover image.
>  
> What I get instead in the toc is the title of the book as the first link, 
> then preface below that. When I view the epub in Firefox, it opens at the 
> cover image; then when I use the nav button at the bottom it goes straight to 
> preface. Oddly, when I then click the back button from preface it goes to the 
> cover image; it is not navigating to the titlepage.
> So, using the side toc, the navigation links go from titlepage > preface 
> (with no link to the cover image). Using the nav buttons, the nav goes from 
> cover image > preface (with no link to the titlepage).
>  
> How can I:
> 1. include the cover image (which is cover.html) at the start of the toc
> 2. make the nav buttons work: cover > title page > preface (and back again in 
> that order)
> I note that the titlepage is given the filename index.html - is this what's 
> causing problems with nav? (ie is there confusion between "index.html" and a 
> back-of-book index?
> Thanks,
> Dave Gardiner

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