Excuse me. Since when is it a prequisite that chapter headings be put into the TOC!! I do admit that Books have a TOC. The TOC is just there to help navigate a Book even printed! The epub requires that there is a TOC like structure for navigating the ebooks. They do not have to correspond to the chapters of a book!! There are many books with out TOCs. Especially, older books. It is only a newer convention. A Chapter, is defined semantically differently. It marks a logical division in a book. A TOC on the other hand has a logical relation to the chapters of a book. NOT the other way around. Of course, it is nice to have the functionality that during processing to know that here is a chapter and please make a TOC entry! Yet, to infer the start of a chapter one does not need a explicit chapter marker. I have not tried it, but I should be possible to make an ebook that does not have any chapter navigation nodes except one to the beginning of the file containing content. At least there is not anything forbidding it! It is a convention. The epub has no way of identifying a chapter unless you tell it that a chapter is suppose at point X. regards Keith. Am 28.02.2011 um 09:18 schrieb don kretz:
It's what goes into the Table of Contents in an ebook. And ebooks for the most part don't let you pass "Go" without distinct chapters in hand. So you won't get far with only undifferentiated chapter headings.
The real question is true semantic markup needed! You yourself have mention that the semantics is in the mind. Besides, what is a Chapter title? It, too is a paragraph, in most cases!
regards Keith.