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Anonymous
August 7, 2020
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How to create a ToC entry in epub for chapter without headline?

  • August 7, 2020
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This has come up many times for me. How to create a ToC entry for a chapter or section that doesn't have a headline to use for the toc? 

 

Also related to this, how do you designate the point at which you want the book to open? Usuall this is the first item in the ToC, I think. But what if the page you'd like to see first doesn't have an ToC entry? 

 

Is there a way to have a ToC entry created for a page where those words don't show up on the page? 

 

In one book with a complex chapter opener that required me to make the header into an image, I made invisible tags for the chapter noumbers, this worked great but were rejected in Kindle, and the only solution I could do was to create teeny tiny white words at the top margin. These only showed up when the book was in night mode, but worked. Is there another way?

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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August 8, 2020

I haven't tried this, but have you used Conditional Text? Show it when creating the TOC, hide it when exporting.

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Anonymous
August 17, 2020

This has more to do with getting it to work when exporting an epub. There isn't a ToC on the page in the epub, I'm using the ToC NCX to generate the functional ereader ToC for navigation. So I don't think showing or hiding the ToC has anything to do with it. There simply isn't a word (paragraph style) to hook it to.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 17, 2020

Sorry--I wasnt clear. I wasn't referring to hiding the TOC. I was referring to the text in the page layout that is used to build the TOC.

 

You don't need the TOC on the page or even need to generate the TOC for the EPUB navagation. (If you do generate the TOC for proofing, you can place it on the pasteboard but it's really not used.)

 

 However, after testing, I can verify that conditional text will not solve your problem.

 

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