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Pat,
Assuming that it isn't connected to the content server, mantano must be getting the raw HTML from the opf inside the book. This data will be very similar to what CC gets from the database, if not identical, ignoring metadata updates that mantano won't see without a resend of the book.
However, if you look at how they are displaying it you will see that they separate the comments from other data, making no attempt to present all the metadata in a unified format, which we do. What they have done instead is to create separate sections on the screen that mask the differences in formatting between the HTML comments section and the more text-like other sections. This is by no means a bad idea, but for us to do something similar we would need to sort all the comments fields, standard and custom, to their own "section" of the details display, probably the end after all the other standard and custom fields. Of course, doing so would raise the level of "user push" to be able to reorder the list of fields, and would raise the risk that we (I) would break something fundamental.
I would also be willing to bet that mantano wouldn't be able to handle embedded images, just as we would not.
I will think further on this, but at first blush I am unwilling to start down this path. I will talk it over with Steven and Annie, and perhaps things might change.
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