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Originally Posted by Sarmat89;

I didn't mentioned cover designers once.

Hmm, really? See next paragraph that's quoted.

Originally Posted by Sarmat89

But there is still no way the user can find the books with covers by Vallejo or the available translations of a certain title.

(BOLD RED emphasis added)

I just thought I should help you remember what you've already written.

Of the 17 EPUB books found in a random folder, 15 had names of the cover artists.
All books which had 'maps', had the corresponding artist credited.
Six books also credited interior illustration artists.

To put this as politely as I know how, bullcrap. Name them. Every single one. Either that, or you're referring to a set of books for which you've already ferreted out the cover designer, or they are YA/Children's books. I can absolutely, positively guarantee that those percentages are WAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of whack.

Poems, letters, scenic directions, something else...

Well, for one thing, poetry varies widely. It's patently absurd to think that one schema could cover all of them or even a small percentage of them. That's probably why there isn't a set schema for that. Letters? Really? That's a big deal to you? I have no idea what "scenic directions" means to you.

See, they can use styles. It is just one step further to mark the major semantic elements.

And, we're back to, you have no experience in this. How do I know? Because if you did, you'd know that many of them are just pushing buttons. They're following some website's directions. They have NO idea WHY. And you can't do markup worth a hoot until you understand the WHY beneath it.

This lack of understanding, of course, is your failing, as well; somewhere you read some enthused post about XML, and it became your raison d'etre. You're parroting what someone else has said. It sounded good to you, so you are trying to sound knowledgeable about it.

You still don't know WHY any of us should use it. I suspect you read a post from some over-enthused FBReader fan, going on and on about how "great" FB2 format is. So, you thought you'd come over here and complain about how "lousy" ePUB is compared to FB2. That's the only place you could have come up with this stuff.

I notice, lastly, that you conveniently didn't answer about how many eBooks you've made. Or how many times you've used DocBook. The fact that you answer the question about listing all the (to quote you) "many" readers that support XML with the honking big list of Coolreader and FBReader...<sigh>

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Yeah, me, too.


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