View Single Post
Old 12-20-2010, 04:19 PM   #8
DMSmillie
Enquiring Mind
DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'DMSmillie understands when you whisper 'The dog barks at midnight.'
 
DMSmillie's Avatar
 
Posts: 562
Karma: 42350
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: London, UK
Device: Kindle 3 (WiFi)
Quote:
Originally Posted by cyberbaffled View Post
Did you find my continuation of the 12-13 thread in which I mention these lines from the command line parse:

"Info(prcgen): Resolving hyperlinks
Info(prcgen): Resolving start reading location
Info(prcgen): Added metadata Start reading "1748" "?

In my opf file there's no "metadata" identified as "Start". What's that about? And where is line "1748" located. It's not in the (book content) filename.html file or in the (Kindlegen generated) filename.mobi file as viewed in KindlePreview, so where is it?
Yes - I thought I replied in that other thread, sorry - that's prcgen setting the "start reading" location. That's what the guide item type="text" is all about, and prcgen identifies the location to set as the "start reading" point by matching up the "href" reference in the guide item with an "id" or "name" reference in the HTML file. As DiapDealer says, the location "1748" is bytes inside the MOBI file.

The reason I suggested posting the OPF file plus HTML extracts is simply that sometimes a second pair of eyes will spot something that the first person isn't seeing because they've gone over the code so many times. Like spotting typos in a book, etc. There has to be something causing the MOBI file to open at the Acknowledgements page.
DMSmillie is offline   Reply With Quote