Hi Chris,
Regarrding your first question, you can set the
stylesheet param named 'generate.toc' to empty to turn off the TOC chunk.
You will still get the NCX toc.
I noticed the same issue with customizing the epub
2 stylesheet. If your customization consists only of parameter
settings, then importing it should work. However, it is a chunking
stylesheet, so any template changes require paying careful attention to import
precedence for them to work. Generally that requires two separate
customization files, but the epub/docbook.xsl needs to be rearranged for that to
work. Based on the experience I gained from creating the epub 3
stylesheet, I plan to rearrange the files in the epub directory for EPUB 2
output to make it easier to customize.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Chris Ridd
To:
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:26
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Removing HTML TOC
from epub
Epubs have a table of contents used by readers (toc.ncx?) which makes the
generated HTML table of contents rather superfluous. How does one prevent its
generation in 1.76.1?
Actually a rather more general question is how (or what's best practice)
to customize the epub stylesheets. The shipped epub/docbook.xsl doesn't really
seem amenable to being customized by an importing stylesheet. The FO
stylesheets are significantly more flexible in this regard.
Or should I be editing a copy of epub/docbook.xsl and customizing it that
way? There's a lot of logic in that stylesheet that I really don't want to
copy and try and keep in sync with the shipping file.
Cheers,
Chris
