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[Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No they don't, since both LRF and EPUB support metadata TOCs. 

What about the EPUB conversion bugs you? I'm always happy to get feedback. 

I guess we can scratch font embedding of the list in that case. Just check the 
margins. 

Kovid.

On Thursday 04 December 2008 16:06:13 Marshall T. Vandegrift wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > An NCX TOC. oeb2lit can use that to create an HTML TOC easily enough,
> > rather like what you do for opf2 -> opf1. TOCs seem to matter a lot to
> > most users and they are particularly important for things like news
> > recipes.
>
> Hmm, ok.  Do any of the other conversions generate HTML TOCs?  To be
> honest I, er, haven't been using the calibre generation tools that
> that much lately...  It's my fault for disappearing while you were
> doing all the initial EPUB work, but there were just enough tiny
> things which bugged me about calibre's EPUB-generation that I ended up
> rolling my own.
>
> > Splitting will be turned off when any2epub is used in the chain.
>
> Oh, whoops.  I don't know what I thought you said about splitting the
> first time I read your previous message.  Yah, no splitting.
>
> > Another couple of points of concern are page margins and fonts. Does
> > microsoft reader use CSS for fonts/margins?
>
> That's a good question.  I'll have to check when I get home what
> MSReader does with @page and body margins -- no LIT book I've looked
> at has set them.  As for fonts, the format does *not* support font
> embedding.  IIRC I saw a list of the Fonts Microsoft guarantees will
> be present (I'd check it, but the "Reader" portion of Microsoft's site
> has been down all day -- weird), but in practice all the books I've
> seen only use the CSS-specified generic font types.
>
> -Marshall
>
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