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Originally Posted by Hitch
Crutledge:
AFAI am concerned, it ain't broke, let's not fix it. JMHO, and worth what you've paid for it. Hitch
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WOW!!!
I had no intention of pulling anyone's chain in this holiday season.
I have worked many years with specifications and requirements which by definition are the minimum capabilities to be implemented. The use of any enhancements incorporated is up to the user. That is why I have dropped the Calibre version of Mobi. Finding kindlegen was great.
The ability of the user to add additional semantic entries to the GUIDE without having to edit content.opf seems to me to no way violate the ePub spec. Valloric has already stated his intention of implementing MOBI with Sigil eventually. The simplest way to do this is to build an interface to kindlegen. Let Amazon maintain kindlegen and MOBI.
It's been 20 years since I have done any programming in C++ and my knowledge of the windows OS is sadly minimal. So i'm not qualified to build this interface. Doing it in ADA, which I have always considered the biggest con ever perpetrated on the US Govt, would be sinful.
So, I carry two versions of each file. One containing the inline toc and loi and one straight ePub. The MOBI works for all MOBI RS to include MobiPocketReader for Win Mobile.
Strangly, the display of the cover as the First Page doesn't bother me.
So, if I caused you any gastric discomfort, I apologize. My first thinking is not always complete.
I do wish you, yours, and all of the Sigil community a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
P.S. The ability of the user to add semantics would be just that. An add selmantic option would appear in the semantics menu and the user would enter the desired string. From that point on the string could be used as any other semantic selection. Not an official semantic in Sigil.
Charlie