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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
I believe the Modify Epub plugin allows you to remove Non DC metadata which does remove the custom column info.
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DoctorOhh - you're right again, why didn't I notice that
I even have it checked ! Familiarity, contempt... For me Modify is menu key, up arrow, enter, enter.
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judyni - I normally don't have anything in Comments (dc:description) most of my books are technical 'papers' from academia, government, think tanks, media etc. I put my comments in a long text custom column called Notes, I do that because I can edit it from the book list cells rather than having to use the metadata editor. Hence my Notes don't go into content.opf.
So, if you use Modify with
Update metadata unchecked, and
Remove non dc: metadata elements checked then you'll have what I referred to as 'pristine' EPUB.
If you don't the want the contents of Comments to go into dc:description then don't use Comments, instead use a custom column eg Notes.
I think you should be able to use Bulk Metadata Edit Search and Replace to move what you have in Comments to a Notes column. But that's not something in which I have sufficient knowledge to offer detailed advice.
Re the setting in the editor - yes I was surprised by it too, and that the default was True. I think I discovered it within a day or so of the editor being officially released. My backup reported an EPUB as being changed and I was darned sure hadn't changed it, because I would have remembered saving it. I reported the error, Kovid bought the setting to my attention and I immediately turned it off. It was in my Test library so it was of little consequence.
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Originally Posted by judyni
I'm not sure this is trustworthy though because it could be an "oversight" that might be "fixed" at any time, since the other methods of writing out metadata write it all out...
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I'd be surprised if this was not a concious decision on Kovid's part, hence I would be surprised if it changed. But it doesn't matter because we now know it can be fixed with the Modify Plug In.
BR