[gmw]

Hi all. I've been using Sigil to cleanup an epub generated out of OpenOffice. It does a great job, makes it very easy to tidy up the styles etc so that everything is nice and clean and tidy. ... But now I'm moving on to the metadata requirements.

According to what I've read the Description field should be used to store the book blurb - but my blurb is three paragraphs, and these get merged into one if I paste them into the Sigil metadata editor (and then go out and come back in again). I imagine I could enter three description fields - but how can I be certain that this will be handled correctly be software reading the epub? Is there a rule for how this is usually done? (As far as I can by researching other epubs the rule is either one paragraph only, or even more common, no description at all.)

This next bit is not really a Sigil specific question, but I thought I'd drop it in while I was here and hope you won't mind. I'm having trouble finding any conventions regarding what goes in some of the fields and how - and which fields really matter (rights, and subject etc.). Any pointers/links to where I might find useful examples would be appreciated. I've already researched several "professionally" produced epubs, and as far as I can tell the rule is make up what you want and stick it in, let the end user worry about it.