Master ToC Construction

I may be wrong, but aren´t you suppose to choose what kind of "section" the book is suppose to be? The title is its own page, but you have to set the pages in chapter and THEN in sections. When you press the "+" you can choose if you want it to be a chapter or just a page. If you choose "chapter" press "+" again to create a page within the chapter.

I THINK it´s the only way to do it. I may be wrong, so if any one have an idea on how to to it, please reply. I am curious to:)

You can not have a "master" TOC page that has all chapters in the book.

IBA has a different TOC page for each chapter. (built on the fly with current chapter sectons)

so if you have 5 chapters in your book you will have 5 TOC pages that contain only the sections of each current chapter.

to get to the different TOC pages you swipe through the TOC pages or click on the dots at the bottem in the black bar.

Let me clarify,

You can not have a master TOC of all the chapters etc. in LANDSCAPE mode

You can in Portrait mode,

so in Portrait mode you could have what you are aiming for, but not in landsacpe.

As always, feel free to use IBA Feeback menu for anything you'd like changed/added in the future.

For landscape mode yes, for Portraite mode the first list will work

also note, the headings will not appear in on the TOC page only the Section titles.

What you can do is:

use a Preface page instead of a chapter page (That way it does not say "chapter & Setion" in the pop up black title bar. and rename sections "chapters"

so internaly the app thinks it is

Preface

Section 1

Heading 1

Heading 1

Section 2

Heading 1

Heading 1

Section 3

Heading 1

Heading 1

But visualy what you see is

Book title(or what ever)

Chapter 1

Heading 1

Heading 1

Chapter 2

Heading 1

Heading 1

Chapter 2

Heading 1

Heading 1

There may be a way to get it to work how you originaly want, but I have not found it.

Hopefully in the next version the TOC stuff that works in protrait will also work in Landscape.

Also in the help file it says adding paragrah styles to the TOC pane in the inspector only works in Portrait mode

not in landsacpe mode.

So it is all working correctly according to the help file.

I'm not seeing any feedback menu ??

Use the first menu on the left 'iBooks Author'...drop that down and choose 'Provide iBooks Author Feedback'.

Fabe, have a look at this page... It shows how to incorporate front matter materials into your TOC

http://www.mariasguides.com/2012/02/09/how-to-create-a-front-matter-chapter-for- your-ebook/

I found a little partal workaround for the TOC problem in Landscape mode.

I set out to achieve a TOC that would show when I "exported" the iba file to a PDF. It's hard for people to help "edit" the book without a printed TOC...

So.. I nested a blank page right after the copyright. Essentially it's a "first page" and comes before the preface, introduction, etc.

Then.. I took screen shots of the thumbnail column along the left. Those had chapter names and page numbers along with the thumbnail.

I pasted those screenshots into a single Photoshop image, did some cropping, etc, and Eureka, I had an image of a sort-of master TOC. Then I pasted that image into my blank page at the top of the document.

Key tip: insert the blank page first, or all the page numbers will be off by 1 if you insert it later.

No "Sections" this way, but at least it's a guide that prints.