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Originally Posted by PatNY
But I was just wondering. In my reader program, Mantano, bold, italics and centering are all maintained on the book details page. Do they use a different process to get that information? For example, do they read book details directly from the book itself whereas CC gets it from Calibre's database or content server?
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Are you talking about the jacket? Calibre heavily processes the comments when it writes to the jacket to ensure a level of consist display. The raw comments don't have this advantage.
The attached screen capture shows a version of book details using a web view. "Comment" is using a web view. All other lines are using rich text. Note the lack of baseline alignment and left margin alignment. Although there must be a way to fix these to ensure they align correctly, I haven't found it.
Yes, I know I am being picky, and perhaps it would be better to say "oh well". The problem is that down that road lies perdition. When developing the book details display we decided that we would rather have a correct layout than show more html, especially since the vast majority of "comments" are close to plain text.
And all this ignores the issue of embedded images, which IIRC won't work at all unless the images are visible on the 'net using URLs. Images embedded in the book file will certainly not work.
Calibre embeds the images into the jacket comments in the book, which is how Mantano will appear to avoid the problem.
Bottom line: what we have is predictable and works for what it does. Trying to use more web views and more html wouldn't have those guarantees.