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Turtle91 · 01-10-2013, 08:47 AM

Hi,

I've been playing around with setting metadata. I noticed Sigil has a list of Basic Properties and a pretty extensive list of Roles...but it doesn't have the ability to define the Series Name or Series Number.

I have looked around and found that you can use Calibre_Series and Calibre_Series_Index...and have successfully set this data using ePubMetadataEditor. The problem is that if, after setting this data, I re-open the epub in Sigil it will DELETE any metadata that is not on it's list.

From what I understand there is not a "spec" for epub metadata - other than the minimum Author, Title, Language - so I'm not sure why Sigil would bother deleting extra tags?

I was wondering if anyone knows how to prevent Sigil from deleting the data, or if there is a way to get Sigil to put the data there in the first place??

Cheers!

01-10-2013, 08:47 AM	#1
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,093 Karma: 18727053 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Metadata deleted in Sigil Hi, I've been playing around with setting metadata. I noticed Sigil has a list of Basic Properties and a pretty extensive list of Roles...but it doesn't have the ability to define the Series Name or Series Number. I have looked around and found that you can use Calibre_Series and Calibre_Series_Index...and have successfully set this data using ePubMetadataEditor. The problem is that if, after setting this data, I re-open the epub in Sigil it will DELETE any metadata that is not on it's list. From what I understand there is not a "spec" for epub metadata - other than the minimum Author, Title, Language - so I'm not sure why Sigil would bother deleting extra tags? I was wondering if anyone knows how to prevent Sigil from deleting the data, or if there is a way to get Sigil to put the data there in the first place?? Cheers!