Thread: How to change wrong xml:lang in multiple files?
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Old 07-29-2021, 06:14 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
@davidfor: Does that actually work though? At least in the calibre viewer, IIRC, cover pages that just contain an image are removed and the image is rendered specially taking into account the users preferences for aspect ratio preservation. And also to make sure the cover renders well, since not every book has correct cover markup. So does the viewer's TTS read that?
Yes, the viewer read it out. But, there is a heading on the page. I have changed the template used to generated the title page so that it has a heading with style "display:none" to make generating the ToC easy. That probably means it is treating the first page as a normal page.
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Not to mention that titlepages are EPUB specific, no other format has them.
But, including a page with a cover image isn't unusual in other formats. Sometimes it isn't first, but, it is there. Do the epub standards say the cover page should be treated differently than other pages? I've never looked at the details for covers.

From the point of view of using a TTS for a book. I would expect something to be read for the cover. But, I could also see a dedicated TTS reader might say the title and author from the metadata at that point. When I was testing this with the viewer, it felt like something was missing. That was compounded by the book I chose. It has the cover page followed by a title page. But, that was also an image so it skipped to the third page before anything was read out.

I don't know what should be done. I don't normally use TTS. It was just something I thought of when reading this thread and decided to try it.
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