How to NOT have a TOC in the conversion

VeryWellAged · Today, 02:27 AM

I have a DOCX document that does NOT have chapter headings. There should be no TOC, but Calibre is seeing the footnotes and creating a false TOC with them. I need to not have that happen.

I have tried to fix it within the Preferences/Conversion/Common Options/TOC but nothing I try in that makes any difference.

BetterRed · Today, 02:56 AM

If the footnote styling in the DOCX is a match to what's you have in Preferences->Conversion->Common options->Structure Detection->Detect chapters at (XPath expression) that could trigger a ToC entry

Quote:

An XPath expression to detect chapter titles. The default is to consider <hi > or <h2> tags that contain the words "chapter", "bode, "section", "prologue", "epilogue" or "part" as chapter titles as well as any tags that have class="chapter". The expression used must evaluate to a list of elements. To disable chapter detection, use the expression "/". See the XPath Tutorial in the calibre User Manual for further help on using this feature.

BR

VeryWellAged · Today, 03:20 AM

Fascinating but what part of this does the / come in? Or do I erase all of it and substitute the /

//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\s+)|((prolog|prol ogue|epilogue)(\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']

Well, anyway I tried removing all and replacing with "/" and it didn't remove the TOC.

VeryWellAged · Today, 07:27 AM

I gave up trying to fix this. Instead I put a hidden header of single "." in the original document and it now creates a essentially empty ToC. I hate hacking a document to deal with converter, but at least it works.

There are times code can be "smarter" by half and can cause problems. There needs to be a simple check box that says: "Do NOT create a ToC."

Today, 02:27 AM	#1
VeryWellAged Eye pea vee for master Posts: 21 Karma: 13632 Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Philippines Device: Android tablets, Android phones and PC's both Windows and Linux.	How to NOT have a TOC in the conversion I have a DOCX document that does NOT have chapter headings. There should be no TOC, but Calibre is seeing the footnotes and creating a false TOC with them. I need to not have that happen. I have tried to fix it within the Preferences/Conversion/Common Options/TOC but nothing I try in that makes any difference.

Today, 03:20 AM	#3
VeryWellAged Eye pea vee for master Posts: 21 Karma: 13632 Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Philippines Device: Android tablets, Android phones and PC's both Windows and Linux.	Fascinating but what part of this does the / come in? Or do I erase all of it and substitute the / //[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\s((chapter\|book\|section\|part)\s+)\|((prolog\|prol ogue\|epilogue)(\s+\|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter'] Well, anyway I tried removing all and replacing with "/" and it didn't remove the TOC. Last edited by VeryWellAged; Today at 03:29 AM.

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Today, 07:27 AM	#4
VeryWellAged Eye pea vee for master Posts: 21 Karma: 13632 Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Philippines Device: Android tablets, Android phones and PC's both Windows and Linux.	I gave up trying to fix this. Instead I put a hidden header of single "." in the original document and it now creates a essentially empty ToC. I hate hacking a document to deal with converter, but at least it works. There are times code can be "smarter" by half and can cause problems. There needs to be a simple check box that says: "Do NOT create a ToC."