say, your books has 40 chapters - the auto-directory would be a nightmare

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say, your books has 40 chapters - the auto-directory would be a nightmare

I'm trying to get rid of the automated directory - creating my own directory ON ONE SIDE only, using Hyperlinks for in-book-linking.

is there any chance to hide or delete the auto-directory
I've been trying to avoide directory inserts by using paragraphs only - but - as I do have chapters AND paragraphs, results were no matching my requirements
is there any chance to link to a word that is NOT part of the body text (to be precise: I created the chapter "Surprise", having a text box on the chapterpage with the word "surprise", ... than inserted pages, layouted my text ... and so on. Now I want to create a link from a self created overview (say page 3 of the book, with no template activated) to the word "surprise" on the chapter page.

Posted on Feb 23, 2012 2:20 AM

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Fabe

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Feb 23, 2012 3:19 AM in response to GeePeeGee

is there any chance to hide or delete the auto-directory

If by "auto-directory" you mean Table of Contents, the answer is no, you can not delete it and create you own.

is there any chance to link to a word that is NOT part of the body text

Yes. A single word can act as a link. But not as a link fromyour own ToC.

- Fabe

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GeePeeGee Author

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Feb 23, 2012 4:20 AM in response to Fabe

Hhm, thanx

@1 - frustrating (see headline); if I would only understand these silly restrictions ....

@1+ - why is a galery-image restricted to an minumum width of 279px ...

@2 - whenever I try, add-Bookmark "+" is grayed out, no matter, if "placeholder" (menue: format/extended) is activeted or not.

my path:

I'm on a page/

page is formatted by a template-page/

I add a textbox/overwrite it with, say, "Situation in 1999"/

I highlight/activate the term

...

+ remains grey.

btw: regards from Hannover (Germany) to Hanover

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Fabe

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Feb 23, 2012 4:38 AM in response to GeePeeGee

Mein Freund,

Step back, take a breath. iBooks Author is narrowly designed. It is not intended to be an all purpose design and publish application, suitable for all people in all situations. What that means is, a gap exists between what we envision and what iBooks Author can do. This forum is filled with questions from smart, hard-working writers, publishers, designers, and computer programmers who begin with "Why..." and end in "...the way I want?"

A Tableof Contents with 40 chapters is not a nightmare.

To gain some perspective on what this program is and what it does, I suggest reading this book, it's free: Publishing With iBooks Author, from O'Reilly press.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do?sortby=publicationDate

I shall ponder #2 above...

- Fabe

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K T

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Feb 23, 2012 7:29 AM in response to GeePeeGee

You can minimize, but not remove completely, sorry. See: Publishing With iBooks Author :

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do

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Answer 5

Feb 23, 2012 9:20 AM in response to GeePeeGee

Remember TOC behaves differently for Landscape and Portrait.

which are you talking about?

Text Bookmarks can only be created from words in the "body" text, (that is the text that flows from page to page.)

Added text box can not be used for bookmarks.

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GeePeeGee Author

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Feb 15, 2013 10:34 PM in response to GeePeeGee

This is how I solved "the problem"

a)

I created my own table of content WITHIN the Chapter "preface"

As you see: each Chapter ha a picture and a headline (red arrow). IN FRONT of the headline (that you see) is a second headline (with opacity set to 0), that is activated as a hyperlink to the first words of the respective chapter. So tapping on the headline brings you to the chapter.

AND on every page in the book is an "i"-Button that brings you back to the ToC.

So, the auto-directory is still there (as a second navgation tool), but the user may and shall use my ToC instead.

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