A few weeks ago I got an email saying I was one of the last two PG contributors using RST and that RST would no longer be accepted by PG. It was suggested that if I wanted to use RST I could convert it to HTML using pandoc.

I have been experimenting with pandoc and rst2html and have gotten good results with both, so I have a pretty good procedure going where I can make RST files and generate usable HTML files from them. I think rst2html gives better results than pandoc, but both work OK and I don't miss the PG extensions to RST much if at all.

HOWEVER, I am not entirely clear on how to submit my HTML docs now. The ebookmaker page suggests that I can include metadata in my HTML files and ebookmaker will pick it up. That does not seem to be happening.

My HTML metadata looks like this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.16: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
<title>A PROSE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF VISHNUPURĀNAM</title>
<meta content="A Prose English Translation of Vishnupurānam" name="pg.title" />
<meta content="99999" name="pg.id" />
<meta content="Public Domain" name="pg.rights" />
<meta content="James Simmons" name="pg.producer" />
<meta content="This file was produced from page images at Internet Archive." 
name="pg.credits" />
<meta content="Manmatha Nath Dutt, M. A., M.R.A.S." name="dc.creator" />
<meta content="A Prose English Translation of Vishnupurānam" name="dc.title" />
<meta content="en" name="dc.language" />
<meta content="1896" name="dc.created" />
<meta content="yyyy-mm-dd" name="pg.released" />
<meta content="images/cover.jpg" name="coverpage" />

This is pretty much what I used with RST, but with names all lower case. I've tried both ways and ebookmaker ignores them both.

So how do I put metadata in HTML so ebookmaker can find it and use it?

James Simmons