> -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Fahlgren [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:13 AM > To: Boris Schäling > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [docbook] ePub: Title page missing and ToC in spine?
Hi Keith, > [...] > > * ePub files contain a XHTML file for the title page (the one > generated by > > the DocBook style sheets anyway) but the file isn't referenced > anywhere. > > Would you please be more specific on what you mean for the "title > page"? I'm not sure what you mean. I'm talking about http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html and the book.titlepage template in xhtml/titlepage.templates.xsl. As the ePub style sheet creates chunks there is also a XHTML file created for the title page. This file is called index.html (according to the parameter root.filename; see http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/root.filename.ht ml). For my books the title page typically contains the book title, name of the author, license, a version number etc. Anyway this is all done automatically by the DocBook style sheets. It's also done when the ePub converter is used. If I look into the .epub file I can see a file OEBPS/index.html. However this file (the book's title page) isn't referenced in content.opf: It's shipped with the .epub file but it's not used. Ideally an entry is added to all sections in content.opf? > [...] > Over time, more ePub reading systems have improved their support for > TOC navigation via NCX. At this time, I personally recommend that > XHTML TOCs are *not* included in ePubs for general consumption, and > that ePub authors work instead on providing rich NCX documents. IIRC, > you can turn off XHTML TOCs by editing the generate.toc parameter in > your customization layer > (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TOCcontrol.html). Thanks for the recommendation! Then it makes sense if the style sheet didn't create a XHTML TOC by default? If no XHTML TOC is created though it makes definitely sense to add the title page (see above :-) to the <spine> section. Currently the XHTML TOC is the first entry in the spine. If there is no XHTML TOC anymore books would immediately start with the first chapter (or preface). - I guess I should create a patch and upload it to http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=21935&atid=373749? Boris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
