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jcsalomon · 03-28-2017, 02:57 PM

A series of books I’m typesetting each begin with a sort of one-sentence “Once upon a time…” preface. Since the dead-tree version had this formatted similar to headings, I coded the prefaces thus:

Code:

<body>
  <h2 title="Preface">Once there was a world [text elided]…</h2>
</body>

Trouble is, Amazon decided to reset the start-reading location to the next page, Chapter 1, probably because that had the first text in <p> tags.

My thought is to recode the preface as specially-styled text, something like

Code:

<body>
  <p class="preface" title="Preface">Once there was a world [text elided]…</p>
</body>

where p.preface is styled in CSS the same as h2. But of course this breaks Sigil’s header-identifier code for (re)building the Table of Contents.

What’s the best path forward? Is it better to include an empty

Code:

<h1  title="Preface"></h1>

tag for this, or is there a complement to sigil_not_in_toc that will cause Sigil to recognize a non-hn element as belonging in the TOC?

03-28-2017, 02:57 PM	#1
jcsalomon Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 1204 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: Bookari (née Mantano Reader) on Android; Kindle Fire HD	Non-<hn> tag in TOC: complement to sigil_not_in_toc A series of books I’m typesetting each begin with a sort of one-sentence “Once upon a time…” preface. Since the dead-tree version had this formatted similar to headings, I coded the prefaces thus: Code: <body> <h2 title="Preface">Once there was a world [text elided]…</h2> </body> Trouble is, Amazon decided to reset the start-reading location to the next page, Chapter 1, probably because that had the first text in <p> tags. My thought is to recode the preface as specially-styled text, something like Code: <body> <p class="preface" title="Preface">Once there was a world [text elided]…</p> </body> where p.preface is styled in CSS the same as h2. But of course this breaks Sigil’s header-identifier code for (re)building the Table of Contents. What’s the best path forward? Is it better to include an empty Code: <h1 title="Preface"></h1> tag for this, or is there a complement to sigil_not_in_toc that will cause Sigil to recognize a non-hn element as belonging in the TOC?