Re: [docbook-apps] Removing HTML TOC from epub

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 09/22/2011 08:49 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Regarrding your first question, you can set the stylesheet param named 
> 'generate.toc' to empty to turn off the TOC chunk.  You will still get 
> the NCX toc.
> I noticed the same issue with customizing the epub 2 stylesheet.  If 
> your customization consists only of parameter settings, then importing 
> it should work.  However, it is a chunking stylesheet, so any template 
> changes require paying careful attention to import precedence for them 
> to work.  Generally that requires two separate customization files, 
> but the epub/docbook.xsl needs to be rearranged for that to work.  
> Based on the experience I gained from creating the epub 3 stylesheet, 
> I plan to rearrange the files in the  epub directory for EPUB 2 output 
> to make it easier to customize.
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net <mailto:bobs@sagehill.net>

Since the toc is never needed (the ncx supplants a toc), would it make sense
to delete the call to generate it such that annoyance is removed?

regards DaveP


>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Chris Ridd <mailto:chrisridd@mac.com>
>     *To:* docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>     <mailto:docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:26 AM
>     *Subject:* [docbook-apps] Removing HTML TOC from epub
>
>     Epubs have a table of contents used by readers (toc.ncx?) which
>     makes the generated HTML table of contents rather superfluous. How
>     does one prevent its generation in 1.76.1?
>
>     Actually a rather more general question is how (or what's best
>     practice) to customize the epub stylesheets. The shipped
>     epub/docbook.xsl doesn't really seem amenable to being customized
>     by an importing stylesheet. The FO stylesheets are significantly
>     more flexible in this regard.
>
>     Or should I be editing a copy of epub/docbook.xsl and customizing
>     it that way? There's a lot of logic in that stylesheet that I
>     really don't want to copy and try and keep in sync with the
>     shipping file.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Chris


regards

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