Table of contents (and other wonkiness) in Epub export

Working on publishing our first book and when I export from Pages 5.1 I get a proper table of contents but it is pushed to front of the book as page 1. I end up with a ToC header on page 8 but nothing underneath it. Also, the inside title page which also has author name and publishing company/town at bottom gets broken up to 2 pages rather than the original 1 page. Last, mentioned in another thread but not yet answered, the export is removing blockquote formatting.
Thanks!
Denny

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Sorry, missed the second part of the question. I think the only way to do that is to use invisible "dummy" text of some sort, and if you're going to do it for some entries, you might as will do it for all.
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I've never tried adding a second marker to a paragraph like that. Why not use a numbered list instead?
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