Editing toc

[exaltedwombat]

I've used h1 for chapter titles, h2 for sections within a chapter. The page appearance is good. But the customer has sent it back - she's looking at the Contents panel in ADE and wants everything top-level. (I've given her a functional inline Contents page, but there's no point in arguing. Enough trouble explaining how she can't have it looking EXACTLY like the printed page in other ways :-)

I changed all the h2 tags to h1, recreated the toc, edited the book to back how it started. Could I have done this more easily by direct editing toc.ncx? I can't see from examining it how the hirearchy is set.

[kiwidude]

Yes you could have just edited the toc.ncx file. If you look closely (try it with a new "test" page book, containing only an h1 and an h2) you will see there is some fairly simple nesting of the <navpoint> elements. Just a case of "cutting" those nested <navpoint>...</navpoint> elements out to paste them after the parent's closing </navpoint> so that they are all at the same top level.

We hope to have a GUI for doing this in a future release.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by exaltedwombat

I changed all the h2 tags to h1, recreated the toc, edited the book to back how it started. Could I have done this more easily by direct editing toc.ncx?

You also could've used kiwidudes Modyfy ePub Calibre plugin for this. It has a Flatten TOC hierarchy in NCX file option.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by exaltedwombat

Could I have done this more easily by direct editing toc.ncx? I can't see from examining it how the hirearchy is set.

You could have done it by directly editing the toc.ncx. "More easily" is extremely relative.

navPoints are nestable ... as per this example:

<navMap>
  <navPoint id="np_1" playOrder="1">
    <navLabel>
      <text>Blah</text>
    </navLabel>
    <content src="Text/part0001.xhtml"/>
    <navPoint id="np_2" playOrder="2">
      <navLabel>
        <text>1</text>
      </navLabel>
      <content src="Text/part0002.xhtml"/>
    </navPoint>
  </navPoint>
<navMap>

"Flattening" that same toc.ncx would necessitate un-nesting the navPoints (putting them on the same level):

<navMap>
  <navPoint id="np_1" playOrder="1">
    <navLabel>
       <text>Blah</text>
    </navLabel>
    <content src="Text/part0001.xhtml"/>
  </navPoint>
  <navPoint id="np_2" playOrder="2">
    <navLabel>
      <text>1</text>
    </navLabel>
    <content src="Text/part0002.xhtml"/>
  </navPoint>
<navMap>

Hope that helps!

[exaltedwombat]

Yes, that helps a lot! I'm ashamed for not seeing that nesting myself.