jim said:
>   Sorry, BB, but if you want to send me,
>   or anyone else, on a journey to teach you
>   how to program -- even static HTML -- then
>   truly one has been sent on a fool's errand.

jim, i was doing you a favor, buddy...

i certainly wasn't asking you to "teach" me.
(i was the one who was going to _certify_
your files as being correct, if they were,
or did you forget that part of the plan?)

you had said that i was "attacking" you.
i was fairly certain that that was a ruse,
and said so, but just in case you _really_
felt that way, i was giving you an "out",
by giving you an opportunity to display
your competence.  you turned it down.

which is too bad, because now we must
infer that you have no competence in
this particular regard of the auxiliary
files needed in creating .mobi and .epub.

and, sure enough, in the file which you
have just posted, created with kindlegen,
you seem not to have used those files,
as evidenced by the lack of an "ncx"
table, or a table of contents entry...

which means your files come up short
when confronted by a real-life user...

can you point us to any files you have
created where you used the aux files?

you have until 4pm eastern time...

at that time, i will _school_you_ by
putting up the template files which
i had asked you to provide for us...

-bowerbird

p.s.  besides, jim, i learn from real life...
even including you, every once in a while.
for instance, when you told the list that
the kindle previewer would convert .epub
into .mobi, you didn't say it _directly_, but
i "learned" that i had just found myself a
drag-n-drop .mobi creator.  good to know.
because kindlegen is a royal pain in the butt.
it might be acceptable over on the p.c. side,
but most mac users are allergic to the terminal,
because it's a sign that the developer doesn't
care sufficiently about the ease-of-use issues.