Bibliographic data

[johnbrown-IF]

Add the ability to specify the fields defined by The Treaty of Babel: genre, publication date, forgiveness rating, etc. This has already been partially implemented, but we can continue moving in this direction.

[dstelzer]

I believe this will only matter for the zblorb format, right? I don't think the Å-machine uses ifiction records currently (though it could in the future), and raw z5s and z8s don't have any place to put this.

I agree it makes sense to allow it for zblorbs, though. "Language" in particular is a good thing to specify.

[dstelzer]

What Dialog supports:

• Title
• Author
• Headline
• Blurb
• Release date
• Release version
• Compiler version
• Serial number
• IFID

What the Treaty of Babel supports:

• Title
• Author
• Language
• Headline
• First published
• Genre
• Authoring system ("group") - automatically set to "Dialog"
• Forgiveness
• Series and number
• Blurb

In bold are the ones that are not the same between the platforms.

[dstelzer]

Actually, Dialog automatically sets the group to "Dialog" when emitting a zblorb. So that one is taken care of.