On 8 February 2012 19:16, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
It's generally accepted that a master format is one from which other formats are generated. This is analogous to a master tape in music, or a master reel in cinema.
OK, well its relatively trivial to convert EPUB to HTML, MOBI, KF8, and txt70. What more do you want?
It's relatively trivial to burn a CD from MP3s and a DVD from MP4s. That doesn't make an MP3 a master tape, or an MP4 a master reel.
HTML to EPUB doesn't really work, because HTML doesn't contain all the elements of EPUB, forcing PG to "fake" this conversion, as one can easily see by taking a good hard look at the push-ups Marcello goes through in epubmaker to generate EPUB from HTML -- let alone generating MOBI. Epubmaker can only "fake" this conversion based on additional conventions PG loads unsupported on top of HTML.
That's not so much a problem in converting HTML to EPUB -- most EPUB files are just HTML in a zip file, with some metadata -- the problem is inferring this metadata from HTML. Inferring semantic information of any kind from presentation-level details is, at best, unreliable. -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you