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Originally Posted by Hitch

Oh, yes, I don't care what version you got--very odd decision tree. I get that they had a lotta lotta data to manage, but still.

Someone sent me v4 of the Churchill book.

Last updated 2019-10-10.

Definitely looks pretty fixed up, and much better than it was on initial release:

• Footnotes/Endnotes seem to be working.
  
  • And Endnotes aren't in one big paragraph now!
• Added the entire Index.
• Much higher resolution images.
• Working RPNs (Real Page Numbers)
• A handful of typo corrections.

A few degradations though:

• Footnotes changed from "fn1" -> "*" form.
• Every footnote split into its own individual file.
  
  • Why, just why?
• Endnotes merged into huge single file.
  
  • Currently ~900 KBs, so would crash on old devices with ~300 KB filesize limits.
• They even introduced a typo:
  
  • Katyń -> Katyn′
    
    • n with acute -> n + prime character!

A semi-detailed changelog between v1->v4 below:

Spoiler:

Index
- v1 had nothing.

Endnote code changed:
- v1
-- <sup class="EBsup"><a href="chapter001_notes.xhtml#ch1_21" id="ch1-21">21</a></sup>
- v4
-- <a href="139_Notes.xhtml#EndnoteNumber20" id="SuperscriptNumber20"><sup class="endnote">21</sup></a>
-- Although you can tell this was probably all generated by a custom workflow. And the generated ids started from 0, so they're "off by one".

Footnote code too:
- v1
-- <a class="noteref" epub:type="noteref" href="../Text/footnotes001.xhtml#ch1_3" id="ch1-fn3">fn3</a>
- v4
-- <span id="footnote-004-backlink"><a class="_idFootnoteLink" epub:type="noteref" href="144_Footnote.xhtml#footnote_3" role="doc-noteref">*</a></span>
-- Although they DEGRADED by going back to the * form.

New section break code
- v1 had the dreaded "margin + noindent" as the section breaks.
-- <p class="EB01BodyTextLineSpace" id="chu0000240">
- v4
-- <hr class="transition"/>
<div aria-hidden="true" class="x04-Space-Break-Orn">*</div>
<p class="EB01BodyTextLineSpace" id="chu0000240">

Frontmatter (copyright page, etc.) in front
- v1 had in back.

Fixed RPNs
- v1 had some accidentally leftover from XML
-- <?pagebreak number="7"?><a id="pg7"/>
<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="pg11"/>
- v4
-- <span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page_7" title="7"/>

Much higher resolution images.

<em> -> <i>
- In this book it makes sense, since all (?) are actual book titles / ship names.

Attached their "spaced en dashes" with a nbsp before them.
- (This is okay typography, although I don't do it in ebooks because of ugly code + potentially bad justification.)
- I only do that in LaTeX/Print.

Ellipsis character -> spaced periods
- Good, I like this.

Single, huge file for Endnotes + Index
- They are both >900 KBs. Should be split to fit below that ~300 KBs limit

Footnotes are all in their own individual files.
- No, just no.

Anyway, I only skimmed through Chapters 1-6. Almost everything was just overhauling code changes.