Is digiKam's ePub offline documentation missing its functional TOC?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Paul,

You are right thatTOC from Epub is empty. Convertir to PDF will not
fix it. It must certainly miss something is the rules to export from
Sphinx/RestructuredText to EPUB.

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 7 avr. 2023 à 09:28, Paul Norman <paul at paulanorman.info> a écrit :
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> P.S.
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> Using Calibre, I have run the following and made a .pdf and a new ePub respectively ...
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> ebook-convert DigikamManual.epub DigikamManual.pdf --paper-size=a4 --pdf-hyphenate --embed-all-fonts --pretty-print  --pdf-page-numbers --pdf-add-toc --smarten-punctuation --keep-ligatures --enable-heuristics  --use-auto-toc --duplicate-links-in-toc --level1-toc=//h:h1 --level2-toc=//h:h2 --level3-toc=//h:h3 --max-toc-links=3000
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> ebook-convert DigikamManual.epub new_DigikamManual.epub --epub-inline-toc --embed-all-fonts --pretty-print    --smarten-punctuation --keep-ligatures --enable-heuristics  --use-auto-toc --duplicate-links-in-toc --level1-toc=//h:h1 --level2-toc=//h:h2 --level3-toc=//h:h3  --max-toc-links=3000
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> But I'm not sure if the auto generated TOCs are as intended by the authors.
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> Paul
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> On 7/04/2023 2:21 pm, Paul Norman wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have downloaded https://docs.digikam.org/en/epub/DigikamManual.epub
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> ... and opened it in both
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> Calibre  https://calibre-ebook.com/
> and,
> Sigil https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil
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> And unlike the well formatted “digiKam Recipies” (which I have purchased),
> the digiKam Manual only displays one item in the Table of Contents in Calibre,
> simply saying “digiKam Manual” — with no sub entries at all, and the rest, in the only shown page, is just too confusing to follow, or navigate around with if you start clicking anything.
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> “digiKam Recipies” shows a beautifully set out TOC in both Calibre and Sigil.
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> Is there another recommended ePub reader that I should be using to read the “Digikam Manual.epub” in,
> or is possibly something wrong with the ePub's formatting and setup?
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> As,  https://www.digikam.org/documentation/  says:
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> "The digiKam documentation can be read online here or downloaded in EPUB format here."
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> ... I guess I expected the ePub to follow the general pattern of the online manual ...
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> https://docs.digikam.org/en/index.html
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> Any help or pointers greatly appreciated please,
> as sometimes we need to use the offline ePub “digiKam Manual” help..
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> TIA,
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> Paul
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