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How do I set the Title/Author of an eBook
Thu, 07/17/2008 - 18:59 — Michael Kaufman
So, I have the iPhone app installed on the Touch and the desktop app installed on my Macbook Pro. I can load textfiles, html, RTF, etc on my Macbook. When I turn on sharing, I can load them wirelessly onto my touch.
THe only problem is that most of them come across with an unknown title/author.
So, how do I set the title and author when I load a text or HTML file?
Thanks, Michael
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thats doesn't look right,
thats doesn't look right, since i don't know how to make this display properly I'll do it this way, please replace the brackets to make the tags work
(head)
(title)Mission Earth 1: The Invaders Plan(/title)
(link rel = "schema.DC"
href = "http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0/")
(meta name = "DC.title"
content = "Mission Earth 1: The Invaders Plan")
(meta name = "DC.creator"
content = "By L.Ron Hubbard")
(/head)
How do I set the Title/Author of an eBook / HTML header
OK after some experiments this header seems to work quite nicely
Mission Earth 1: The Invaders Plan
Hope that’s helpful
The next version of Stanza
The next version of Stanza iPhone/iPod, which will be available within the next few days from the Apple App Store, will support the changing of the title and author of a book.
Availible yet?
Is this new version of the iPhone app here yet? I can't seem to do it with the version I downloaded two days ago.
Version 1.1 was just made
Version 1.1 was just made available today on the Apple App Store!
What about the desktop app?
That's great. Is there any way to do the same thing in the desktop App?
Thanks, Michael
Not yet. We are planning on
Not yet. We are planning on offering metadata editing for a future version of Stanza Desktop, but we do not have a specific target date for it yet.
Note that if your files are in HTML or plain text, you can give Stanza "hints" about the title and author. For plain text, you can insert lines at the very beginning of the document:
Title: The title of my book
Author: Author Name
That will usually cause Stanza to pick up the title and author from the text, although since Stanza uses a variety of heuristics to determine the title and author, it is not guaranteed to work.
For HTML, you can use meta tags in the head tag to set the author, using the Dublin Core metadata format (as described at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt). For the title, you can just change the title element of the document.
Author in HTML
I don't know any other way to say this, but could you cut to the chase about how to set the author in an HTML document? I've gone to the link you referenced, and I would imagine it is incredibly useful to developers. But for those of us just trying to add the author, it is a little frustrating.
Can you just tell us what syntax to use in the metadata so Scrivener will recognize the author. I used the following (and I included <> on my html page, but if I put it here it thinks it is an actual HTML tag for the post), but it didn't work:
meta name = "DC.Title"
content = "Great Expectations"
meta name = "DC.Author"
content = "Charles Dickens"
Thanks!
Got it...
Just changed it from dc.author to dc.creator, and it worked! Thanks anyway!