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Originally Posted by davidfor
Most of that sounds more like a conversion than the driver. The driver should only touch the CSS except to add things that are in kepub and the hyphenation options. The changes to the HTML should only be the spans, and a wrapping div or two. The formatting of the code might change a little, but I don't think it runs a pretty print or anything over it.
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It doesn't. But Calibre conversion and the Kepub output go together. You cannot use the Kepub output plugin without Calibre, so you cannot avoid the extra Calibre cruft.
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Adding the custom column metadata is done anything that updates the metadata in the book. It's not pretty if you open the OPF, but it is well within the standards.
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Well, the meta tag is deprecated in Epub 3.0.1 and removed in 3.1. Also, I manually go and clean every book I own and like to keep it that way.
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I'll admit to not doing much scripting using calibre, so I haven't hit that. But, I'll have a look at the conversion to see what's up. But, this doesn't use the driver, it is using the input and output plugins.
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Yes, I know the difference between the driver and the i/o plugins, as I have said before. IIRC, it was an issue with the GUI imports.
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The file path for the input and output can be specified, so I'm not sure what you mean there. And an extra CSS file can be supplied as a parameter.
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It can't do batch conversion while preserving file structure and only modifying changed files.
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But, a conversion is not what you want to do if you want complete control over the result.
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Which is why Calibre doesn't fit my needs.
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The hassle with that is there is confusion over the necessity of the KoboTouchExtended driver. Some people seem to think it is necessary, install it and then complain about what it is doing.
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Yes, I agree with that, but I know the difference myself if that's that you're implying.
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I haven't looked for the epub3 series metadata, but I'll have to look at the ones I have from Kobo and see if they are using it. And yes, the calibre series metadata is the closest thing to a standard for epub2. I tried to convince Kobo to read it some time ago, but they weren't interested. With the epub3 support, it might be time to try again.
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None of my Kobo books use it. As for the epub3 metadata, I don't think Kobo will do it (it's even less likely), as the current metadata extraction is not complex enough to handle the epub3 style without some changes. I think I might be able to patch it to read Calibre metadata though, if I can find some unused space I can fit the code in along with another variable.