Making reader files?

[RwGast]

[James S]

[RwGast]

[James S]

[RwGast]

[James S]

[RICoder]

I've been playing around with the Add-In quite a bit.

It really takes advatage of the formats you can apply in word. I.e. if you make something 'level 1' or 'level 2' it will appear in the TOC. Though, I always go back and make a TOC when I am done anyway, and it managed to put it in for me.

The review in .lit format was done by loading the HTML file into word and converting it. The thing is, it looked like crap so I had to go in and play around with the formatting a little. But it wasn't much work at all. In fact, the graphics would have stayed in too, but I decided to take them out for size.

There is, somewhere, a pdf converter to Word format, but I don't know where it is. I have to go lookin' around. If you can get it into Word, you're all set.

[RwGast]

RIC, what are levels? I'm no word guru or anyting. Also your saying hyper links work?

[RICoder]

Ok, I uploaded a new version of the e-book to the server, so you can download it again from the link in the review. It has a TOC in it.

In Word, if you look at the toolbar, or go to the format menu, you will see Styles and Formatting as an option. (In the menu bar, it should say 'normal' in it when you start up word).

What you want to do, is use the menu, because in the dialog it will give you the option to show all available styles.

Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. are all associated with levels. You can tell what level by customizing each one and looking at the settings.

The idea is that as you write your document, you should assign styles to each part. So, the Title is Title style, section headings use Heading styles, regular text is either Normal or Body Text (up to you).

Once you are done, you can go in to the menu and actually change the appearance of any/all of the styles, and it will update the document for you. This is pretty sweet if you want to change the whole look and feel really easily. The only effort was in making sure you set it up right from the start.

You can also specify the Style to follow each style. Meaning that you could say, set Heading 1 to be followed by Heading 2 and Heading 2 to be followed by body text. So, when you type in a Heading 1 and hit enter, Heading 2 is the active style, hit enter again and it is in body text. This makes it all a lot eaier on you.

Now, once you are done, go to the very top of the document (or wherever you want to put in the toc). Click Insert->Reference->Index and Tables, click the table of contents tab and click ok. Viola, you should have a TOC now. I would insert a page break after it, just to be nice.

There is a ton of other stuff you can do as well, like auto update the TOC if stuff changes, etc.

Hope that all helped.

[James S]

Or you can click on View > Toolbar > Outline and then change the level every time you want a new chapter, then insert a TOC like RICoder said. I don't like that type of table of contents though, I want to know how to make one like in all professional ebooks where you tap the Table of Contents link on the opening page of all ebooks, kind of like the way the Anotation Index works so that it's seperate from the book like the preface of a real book, page i, page ii, page iii, then page 1 is the first chapter.

[RICoder]

Moose,
When you create an eBook with Word, it will actually ask you if it can convert to eBook TOC style, and then, when you say yes, it will do it for you. Download the newest eBook that I made from http://www.pocketmatrix.com/reviews/series/msreader and tell me if that is the kind of TOC you want. If it isn't, let me know and I will post one in the style you are talking about. Though you will have to be more specific in what you are looking for.

Also, would anyone be interested in a guide on how to make an eBook?

[James S]

[RICoder]

k, I will post the next installment in the series (it's on Remote Display Control) on monday, then I will do the guide, then I will do the next thing in the series.