Strategy 3 is extremely interesting, from the "if you are repeating yourself, you are going wrong" point of view. Nevertheless such an approach needs a well-designed and complete "chapters tree" as step one; the best would be that titles of sections/subsections could be wrote one only to avoid any possible mistake.

A simple Excel page (or similar) would be probably the simplest way to produce the template code to be seeded into pages containing the start of chapters and ignoring other pages.

With very few simple conventions, anything - but pagelist - could be automatized, if a thorough seeding of such templates could be done as proofreading step 1, since a script could add too needed section tags, then build pages tags and fill chapter list into Index page, and all the needed code for ns0 pages/subpages.

2013/6/7 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com>

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I wonder if there is a better way to define the logic structure of our book, maybe directly in the Index page.
I don't know what would be easier for the user:

* define the table of content once for all in the Index page
* define the table of content once in the book Toc (there is often one, if not always, when needed)

* define the table of content just putting templates thorough the book, as the reader goes through the book.

What do you all think?

Aubrey