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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well....I thought you were kidding, because we're discussing what Amazon does, in the PW (Publishing Workflow) to defeat our wishes, is what we were talking about, so...if a file isn't being submitted to Amazon, you just do what you want. See what I mean, why I asked? Didn't mean to sound snarky.
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OK, now I see. Thanks, I was starting to think you were out to berate every post I make.
I wasn't asking how to use some tool that I probably don't use. I was trying to ask how the starting point is denoted in a kindle format file. This is, after all, the Kindle Format forum. I thought that was at least implicit in asking why
Guns, Germs, and Steel opens at the cover.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
The Amazon processing, compiling, etc., done in the Publishing Workflow is what 'sets" the SRL, contrary to what others have done.
If you're NOT submitting it to the Zon, hell, you can set it wherever you wish, using the TEXT metadata/semantics. If you're using Sigil, for example, just set the semantics to the HTML section you wish--in the Book Browser, right-click, add semantics, Text.
You can try old-school, with the "Start" tag, in the HTML, but TEXT works as well, as far as I know.
HOWEVER, all of this assumes that the device you're using recognizes that. In my (rather endless) experiments, trying to make clients happy-happy-joy-joy, the Kindles seem to recognize the TEXT semantic as the SRL, when sideloaded.
Hitch
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Thanks for that as well.
I looked at a few kindleunpack rawml output files today, and as near as I can tell, the start location has something to do with where the <body> tag with aid="0" is.