Okay, being the verbose one in the group, here is my EXPERIENCED answer. Make yourself a list.
If you want to have jump point links within your document but you are unwilling to break it up into pages or posts, (Skippy’s plugin is AWESOME for that and you can see it in use on one of our online books) then you have to do the HTML. It ain’t fun, but it does the job.
Here is a simple example.
<div class="toclist">
<ul>
<li><a title="section one" href="#section1">Section One</a></li>
<li><a title="section two" href="#section2">Section Two</a></li>
<li><a title="section three" href="#section3">Section Three</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Fill it in with all of your references. Now, to make the link point in your document (called the “target”) you can do one of the two following:
Simple: Works on most newer browsers but not all old.
<h3 id="section1">Section One</h3>
Old but Works: This works always but it can turn whatever you have highlighted into a link that links to itself, so you have two ways of using this. The second one doesn’t always validate, but it works – just know that.
<h3><a name="section1">Section One</a></h3>
<a name="section1"></a><h3>Section One</h3>
Now, in your style sheet, create a style called “toclist” or whatever you want and give it some “style” like this simple box:
.toclist {border: solid 1px blue; margin:5px; padding: 5px; text-align: left; font-size: 90%}
.toclist ul {}
.toclist li {}
In the ul and li, you may have to experiment, depending upon how your Theme’s style sheet styles your lists and you might even have to resort to negative margins on the left to make sure the bullets (if you use them) will fit within the box. From here, it’s experimentation, but you got the basics.
I REALLY REALLY recommend that you break it up into sections and use something like Skippy’s In-Series plugin. Long posts are painful to load and people lose interest before they even get to the third paragraph, as most people have just reading this instruction. 😉
Another note. If you choose to break it up using WordPress’ NEXTPAGE tag, and make a TOC with links to targets within that single but divided post, you have to make the links feature the page number, which gets really complicated.
