Ncx building

A nice article here which explains how to build the ncx file (not quite as clearly as Joshua Tallents’ book). I disagree with one point in the article which says that the Kindle doesn’t support nested navigation points. It does, the main navigation points show up along the navigation bar. Move to a main navigation point then turn a page, the joystick now navigates the next level of navigation points. Neat and fairly intuitive. Such Words As These will be using a nested navigation system.

Edit:

Or maybe not, the initial tests seemed to return an intuitive result. Chapter headings were placed on the first level and individual poems in a second level. The navigation system skipped along the chapter headings on the first level, pausing on a chapter heading and pressing next page entered the chapter and the joystick then navigated between poems. The ‘problem’ comes at the end of the chapter, I would like the navigation to move onto the next chapter heading, it doesn’t it skips the heading and moves on to the contents of the next chapter also on level two. It seems hard to imagine when this sort of navigation would be useful. We have now returned to using a flat navigation system just as the above article suggests.

Leave a Reply