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Old 08-08-2012, 05:24 AM   #38
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My question was within the context of what should be in a Glossary of Terms. I would not expect a GoT to tell me how to do things to a given object, Regarding metadata jackets I asked

what's the reason for them,
why would I want, or not want them,
where would I get them

So when I tick this in the Structure Detection sub-dialogue of the Conversion Dialogue - am I creating the digital equivalent of a Book Title Page or a Book Dust Jacket

In the Real Book world I would have thought that the Title Page and Dust Cover are two very different artefacts, with quite different purposes

If in the eBook world a Title Page and a Metadata Jacket are one and the same, then why have two terms, other than to confuse us non-aficionados. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened in the IT malaise.

My English teacher once made me write out in copperplate, in india ink, in my exercise book, the following maxim "I shall use not different words with the same meaning, nor yet the same word with different meanings" 100 times

BR

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