How to NOT have a TOC in the conversion

[VeryWellAged]

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]

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

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.

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[VeryWellAged]

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]

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."

[DNSB]

If you are reconverting a document and have made changes in how you want it converted, did you remove the saved conversion settings? This can be done from the Edit metadata in bulk and checking the Remove stored conversion settings for the selected books.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by VeryWellAged

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."

Sorry about the bum steer

Pretty sure setting the Chapter detection Xpath to '/' and ToC Number of links to '0' used to work… like a decade ago. But it doesn't seem to now. IIRC an NCX is mandatory in EPUB 2 so that might be why.

But that doesn't explain why was your footnotes were ending up as ToC entries. Kovid would probably need access to your DOCX to answer that, see ==>> https://calibre-ebook.com/bugs

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