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Originally Posted by Sella174
As an example, <article> is an HTML5 tag, hence if I want to use it, I must define the source file as HTML5. Same with <aside>, <figure> and <footer>. Also, the Publishing Guidelines states that <font>, <center> and <big> are depreciated, all valid HTML 4.01 tags.
As I said, tedious.
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Well, you may well find it tedious, but generally, most of the responders here are trying to help you, based on years of experience and tried and true best practices, all built from those years of experience and realistically, between all of us, thousands of books. Thousands. My firm
alone has done more than 3500 eBooks/mobi files.
For example--you want to use article? Aside? Figure? Footer? Good luck with that, because
NONE of those will work on the PRC/KF side of your MOBI file. That's what Jon (Wolfie) was saying, in his own way, when he said, "HTML5 doesn't work," or words to that effect.
Most of us have learned--the hard way--that thinking that X is a great idea, or that we can do X, because it works in Y, doesn't work in MOBI format, or at best, only works in KF8, and not in KF7. And sometimes, it won't work consistently or reliably across KF8, OR, it will work for Amazon KF8, but you can't make it work decently in iOS readers for Kindle.
For that matter, I'll tell you that there's crap in the KPG that flatly DOES. NOT. BLOODY. WORK, and if you get into it with Amazon--I mean, Seattle, not some guy at the call center/CSR in India--you'll find two completely different divisions telling you completely, and I mean, completely opposite things, coding-wise.
The KPG came around from two standpoints--one was Mobipocket, and the other was Word--period. To this day, it's a bit of a mishmosh, constantly being updated and tweaked and FIXED. The examples are, by and large--wrong. They have been for years.
BUT, hey: good luck with your MOBI files. As far as how tedious or tiring or boring, etc., this thread is, you asked about making a MOBI, by its lonesome, w/o ePUB. Fine. I told you several different ways to do it, all of them pretty much the ONLY ways to do it.
As far as ePUB, ANYONE at Amazon will tell you that ePUB is definitely preferred, and moreover,
EVERY BPH loads ePUB, and only ePUB, to Amazon. Without exception. So, you can sit here and argue with us--those of us who've made thousands of mobis--that you know better, because, bygod, you read the INSTRUCTIONS--but when Doits tells you that ePUB is preferred, it was, it is, and it has been, and yes, it's been in the KPG practically since the beginning. Because Amazon's come out with those two godawful tools, the KindleCreate tools, they've dropped that last line from the KPG, but for professional publishers, I think you can reasonably infer that they'll be uploading ePUBs, in both 2 and 3 format, for years to come.
/hopefully, done with this thread now.
Hitch