Hi Jason, I think that may be where I end up. Do you have any examples of TOCs you've built that you can share with the group?
Best Regards, Dick ------- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net [email protected] On Feb 4, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Jason Zech wrote: > I haven't started using EPUB3 stylesheets yet, but for my epub2 and kindle > work, I finally customized the stylesheets to produce my TOC lines as p tags > with useful class names that I can control in the CSS. Neither of the built > in list-options for TOC seemed to work well enough for my purposes, > especially when going into Kindlegen. You could try that route. Requires more > CSS work, but results in much better control. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 5:22 PM > To: DocBook Apps > Subject: [docbook-apps] TOC on kindle > > I've been building books with the ePub3 style sheets, then using kindlegen to > convert them to .mobi. > > It works pretty well for most things, however, the TOC is giving me several > problems. > > 1) At least in the emulator, it seems like only the Kindle Paperwhite honors > the hidden attribute on <ol>. The result is that even if toc.section.depth is > set to 0 and toc.max.depth set to 1, most Kindles show a complete toc (I'm > talking about the xhtml toc here, not the .ncx toc). > > 2) Some kindles, e.g., first generation and the iPad and iPhone apps (again > this is seen in the emulator, but I think the emulator is pretty good these > days), interpret the <ol> elements literally, which means that you get > numbering that does not appear in other instances or in ePub readers. And, > since the numbering encompasses prefaces, appendixes, colophons, etc. the > numbers often bear no relation to any actual chapter numbers. > > So, my question is whether there are ways to work around these problems to > make the Kindle versions behave a bit more sensibly? > > Best Regards, > Dick Hamilton > ------- > XML Press > XML for Technical Communicators > http://xmlpress.net > [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
