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Old 04-23-2014, 04:51 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
If the value created by Calibre is wrong, than it should be corrected by Kovid whether it works or not. You should always keep as close to the specifications as possible.
That was my argument, too. Kovid disagreed, rather strongly, for reasons that still don't make sense to me.

For those who want to join me out here in the weeds...

Spoiler:
Kovid defends giving an empty TOC a depth of 1 on the grounds that the spec requires the depth to be a positive integer, the smallest possible TOC is one that's empty, and thus an empty TOC must be assigned a depth of 1. However, the spec disallows empty TOCs, requiring that the TOC contain at least one element, which means that a depth of 1 corresponds to a flat TOC, not an invalid empty one. Even the example in the spec explicitly demonstrates this, although there's one draft that screws up that example. Even when shown the certified correction, Kovid fell back on the "it doesn't break anything, so why bother" defense for keeping the status quo. I disagree, but it's his program and his choice. I just correct it on the infrequent occasions I use Calibre for such things, then go about my day.
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