Top Boilerplate This section explains the PG boilerplate that you must put at the top of your PG-RST file. It looks like this: .. -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- (1)
.. meta:: (2)
:PG.Id: 181
:PG.Title: Very Short Title
:PG.Released: 2010-11-25
:PG.Rights: Public Domain
:PG.Producer: Woody Guthrie
:PG.Producer: Pete Seeger
:PG.Producer: The Almanac Singers
:PG.Credits: This file was produced from images stolen from the Louvre.
:DC.Creator: Jane Austen
:MARCREL.edt: Mark Twain
:MARCREL.ill: Édouard Manet
:DC.Title: Full Title Statement
:DC.Language: en
:DC.Language: fr
:DC.Language: de
:DC.Created: 1900
:coverpage: images/cover.jpg
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.. pgheader:: (4) Insert this line verbatim. It must be the first line in the text. The metadata directive: see section below. This directive inserts the PG header as generated from the metadata. | PG.Id | The ebook number. | PG.Released | The PG release date in YYYY-MM-DD format. | PG.Rights | Either ’Public Domain’ or ’Copyrighted’. | PG.Title | A much shortened form of the title. Used in the PG boilerplate in the lines that say: “Start of this PG ebook …” and “End of this PG ebook …”. | PG.Producer | A personal name or organization that helped produce this text. This field may appear more than once. Don’t put more than one name into one field. Repeat the field if necessary. | PG.Credits | A line acknowledging the source of the images or other stuff. |
DC Scheme This scheme holds standard Dublincore stuff and is used by many search engines and the PG cataloguing software. Fields In the DC Scheme Name | Contents |
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DC.Creator | Author. A personal name or organization that created the text. May appear more than once. Don’t put more than one name into one field. Repeat the field if necessary. | DC.Title | The full title statement as found on the book’s title page. | DC.Language | The 2 or 3 letter code for all languages used for substantial portions of the text. May appear more than once. Don’t put more than one code into one field. Repeat the field if necessary. The languages listed here are indicative for the catalog and do not set the text language and hyphenation rules. Use the option class language-<language-code> for that. | DC.Created | The year of original publication if known. | MARCREL Scheme This is used to record contributors to the text. All these fields may appear more than once. Don’t put more than one name into one field. Repeat the field if necessary. Fields In the MARCREL Scheme Name | Contents |
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MARCREL.edt | Editor | MARCREL.ill | Illustrator | MARCREL.trl | Translator | MARCREL.* | See the full list of MARC relator codes. | No Scheme Some fields are associated with none of the above schemes. Fields Without Scheme Name | Contents |
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coverpage | A coverpage for those formats (eg. Kindle) that support a cover page. This image must be included in the upload but must not necessarily be put in the text flow. | Bottom Boilerplate You must put this at the very bottom of your PG-RST file. This directive inserts the PG footer and license. |
