Forum: Author Hangout

As to why the non-new page, I can only guess it was added after the Calibre file was originally made and it didn't process right.

I always remove the ebook from calibre when I make a change and add the new version back, so that wasn't it.

It recognized the H1 because it put it in the ToC. But it didn't do the page break.

I like having the cover page in the ToC. I want an easy way to get to it. It not only has the copyright information, acknowledgments, etc., but also "Other Books by author."

I did do a copy and paste from the novel I was previewing to the end of the novella I was creating and added the preview page. So they were sort of two files combined. But that shouldn't have mattered.

Oh well, it works with the manual page break. I was just wondering why I had to do it.

It recognized the H1 because it put it in the ToC. But it didn't do the page break.

That's a separate Style Definition in the original document (page break before), so if your Heading 1/H1 Styles are properly defined, it's function as you want it to.

Just ensure you don't use both Page bread before and Page break after, otherwise you'll have a LOT of empty pages in your document!.

Vincent, the eBook (design) King!

so if your Heading 1/H1 Styles are properly defined,

That actually solved another problem. When I clicked on "Heading 1" I always had to change the font, color, size, and alignment. I now set the H1 style in Word the way I want it.

I do not have "page break before" checked and Word does not do a page break before the chapter name. But Calibre does put in a page break before the paragraphs defined as "Heading 1", except for the first one. And except that one time (PREVIEW was defined as "Heading 1").

For the title page most people use the Heading style for the story title on the front page so it won't be listed in the TOC while the H1 and H2 will be.

As Word and html both allow you to modify TOC entries on the fly, I include the full title on the Title Page, but then change it to "Title Page", so there's no question what it is, and it's more easily accessed.

In basic ePub html code, the command is '< h1 title="whatever the hell you want it to be">Displayed Title< /h1>'

I add a separate 'Preview' chapter, but then post the chapter title within that preview as a simple 'centered text' so it doesn't list in the book's TOC.

I cheat in a different way. I do use Heading 1 and Heading 2 for chapter and sub-chapter titles and I also set my Calibre ToC to show them as such (which is the default setting) I also use a Heading 6 which has the exact same settings as Heading 2 which I use for the story titles in the Also by section at the end where I give a brief blurb on other stories that may interest people - that way it looks the same but it's not in the ToC. I sometimes use the Heading 6 to emphasis something within the story like a sign or notice.

Ya gotta love setting styles within the word processor (whichever it be) and making use of them.

I also use a Heading 6 which has the exact same settings as Heading 2 which I use for the story titles in the Also by section at the end where I give a brief blurb on other stories that may interest people - that way it looks the same but it's not in the ToC.

While I also list story tiles (under my "Other Books by the Author" front-matter section), I've never found a need to include it under a heading. Instead, I have a separate "Center Bold" style I use for notices ("The End" or "Continued in ..." statements, in addition to my story titles).

Over the years, as I've experimented, I've created a variety of styled definitions, and have recently been purging the older, no longer used styles. Now I've got a very tight list of styles I commonly use, and I actively disable/delete any default Word styles I don't use (Heading 4 - 9, TOC 4 - 9, etc.).

The simplification makes the documents easier to use, figure out, helps the overall efficiency, and reduces file sizes on a variety of formats.

So I guess I found a bug in Calibre.

That's one reason why, unlike many others, I don't submit Word/OO files to Calibre, but instead manually create my html files which I submit to Calibre, and then clean up all the CRAP that Calibre dumps in the files they create.

Many distribution sites have troubles with submitted document files, but none have any trouble with my submitted epub files.

That's one reason why, unlike many others, I don't submit Word/OO files to Calibre, but instead manually create my html files which I submit to Calibre,

I did that with my first novel and regret doing so.

Some day I will painstakingly convert the XHTML back to Word docx.