Update!
I just hit a major milestone and am feeling pretty good. All three volumes are structurally complete and seem to have passed all major tests required as a minimum for submission. I'm sure I've more testing to do but I'm starting to relax.
I've learned a TON during this project, and if/when I do this again I won't be using many/any of the strategy ideas I mentioned in the OP. I'll post again at some point when I have more time to outline the kind of approach and strategy that I think would make more sense now that I know what I know. Edit: Oh, and Sigil wound up becoming my editor of choice. I should have explored it more before embarking.
Next on my list:
- Finalize main volume cover images (created by me — book title pages use original book cover images)
- Finish the volume frontmatter pages which are only about halfway done
- Media queries, device-specific styling changes, other optimizations
- Semantics and other backend improvements/optimizations
- Styling tweaks & fixes (most if not all significant issues have already been fixed)
Regarding semantics, I'm a little unfamiliar with how they should be implemented (if at all — I should probably mention that (1) I'm still an ePub semantics noob and (2) the project has evolved a bit since the OP and it may actually be put out into the wild, down the road.)
This is the tree I'm currently going with as of this writing, which reflects the structure I'm using and the semantic terms that I think would make sense.
Thoughts?
Quote:
volume
├──cover (Volume cover page)
├──titlepage (Volume title page)
├──copyright-page ("Copyright Info")
├──preamble ("Editors Note")
├──colophon ("Edition Notes")
├──acknowledgements ("Acknowledgements")
├──preamble ("Tentative Timeline")
├──division (Book)
│....├──titlepage? (Book title pages with book cover images)
│....├──toc (Book TOCs - not sure how to distinguish, semantically, from Volume TOCs)
│....└──bodymatter
│..........├──part (Book sections, level 1)
│..........│....├──preamble (Maps - not sure at all about this one, just picked it as it seemed to be the closest fit)
│..........│....├──introduction (Book introductions)
│..........│....├──prologue (Book prologues)
│..........│....└──chapter (Book sections, level 2)
│..........│..........├──endnotes ("Notes" — chapter endnotes)
│..........│..........└──chapter part Book section, level 3 — not sure what to call this, semantically)
│..........│................└──endnotes ("Notes" — chapter part endnotes)
│..........├──glossary
│..........└──afterword
├──toc (Volume TOCs - not sure how to distinguish, semantically, from Book TOCs)
└──appendix (haven't actually developed this idea much yet, still considering ideas)
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