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Originally Posted by foosion

In the context of editing commercial books for personal use, there are some sections in epubs (especially in the front before the actual text) that don't seem very useful and often seem more a legacy of paper books.

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Index: Often lists print page numbers and suggests using search. In any event, search seems better.

Oh boy... Indexes. I'll just link to all the previous in-depth discussion on it:

• 2020: "How to export indexes from indesign to epub" (Post #40) + (Post #42)
  
  • Have you ever even learned "How to Read a Book"?
    
• 2022: "Page Numbers on Sigil"

Best to just leave Indexes in there. It's not hurting anybody.

And a concordance (Search) ≠ human-curated Index.

You can read more detailed reasons/examples in those threads above. Me and Hitch (and other MR users) have had many discussions about it in the past 12+ years.

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it’s not out there and used properly. You obviously haven't seen my books (or read the examples I've posted here) then you would have seen them...

lol. Pretty funny. I take a year off, and come back to see the same exact things being posted by a certain curmudgeon user!

Whenever <em> and <i> gets brought up, there is only need to point to the 2 best dang topics about it:

• 2021: "Italics and Bold"
  
  • Goes over the basics of <i>/<em> + <b>/<strong> + gives examples of where/why you'd use each.
    
  • Text-to-Speech, Auto-Translation, and different languages are the key reasons too.
    
• 2020: "<i>, <em> or <span> for italics ?"
  
  • Earlier discussion covering even more cases.
    

And then there was the more recent best dang:

• 2023: "Semantic markup question!"

which covered stuff like:

• "Do I Put Spaces Inside Italics/Emphasis?"
• "Does Punctuation Go Inside the <i> or <em>?"
• "What's This Text? <i> or <em>?"
• "Should I Mark Italics Or Emphasis If I Can?"
• "Are <i> and <em> the Same?"

and describes some really awesome/advanced tricks you can do to speed things up, like:

• Using CSS to temporarily highlight <i>/<em> in different colors.
• Using Sigil's new "Filter Replacements"/"Dry-Run Replace" to mass correct italics <-> Emphasis.
  
  • Back in early 2023, that was just theoretical! Now in 2024, it's possible.
    
    • Can be found in Sigil by Shift+Left-Clicking on the "Replace All" or "Count All" buttons.

There is no reason to beat that dead horse yet again.

The tools are there, the functionality is there, and it's so much faster to mark up properly than it used to be.