[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by TheOne320

I just got my new Kindle Colorsoft and now I am wondering how can I get FanFicFare to import stories with colours? Some RoyalRoad stories use colour in tables or just to highlight specific words. How can I setup FanFicFare to save these colours in the epub?

Depends on the story and how color is implemented.

Tag Styles

A lot of the time, it's style attributes on individual tags. By default, FFF removes style attributes from tags.

From defaults.ini:

Spoiler:

## Some attributes cause problems for EBook readers.  By default,
## FanFicFare will remove all attributes except the ones specified
## from all tags.  (The only exception is that <img> tags will also
## keep src, alt and longdesc attributes.  data-orighref is used by
## internalize_text_links to preserve links when chapters are
## inserted.)
## Example: To add 'style', 'title' and 'align' to the list to keep,
## in your personal.ini [defaults] put:
## add_to_keep_html_attrs:,style,title,align
keep_html_attrs:href,name,class,id,colspan,rowspan,data-orighref

You can keep style and align attrs for RR only, or all epubs like so:

[www.royalroad.com]
add_to_keep_html_attrs:,style
# use one or the other, not both
[epub]
add_to_keep_html_attrs:,style

Stylesheets

In some stories/sites, colors/styles are implemented in a separate CSS stylesheet tag or file and applied by tag/class/id.

There isn't a one-line solution for those. You'll need to identify the needed CSS and add it to personal.ini with add_to_output_css. Probably on a story-by-story basis; unless a site or author has a common CSS they use.

In either case, you'll have to do an overwrite always download to get these changes in stories you've already downloaded before.

[XRoverMaelstromX]

I am trying to change how FanFicFare phrases the status metadata piece when it puts it into tags. I used replace metadata and it came out very weird and I don't understand why.

My personal.ini has the following:

include_subject_tags: status, extratags

extratags: Type - Fanfiction

Previously, this resulted in the tags Completed or In-Progress being inserted into my tags column, depending on how the fic was marked on Ao3.

Today I added:

replace_metadata:
 status=>Completed=>Status - Completed
 status=>In-Progress=>Status - In-Progress

This resulted in the tags Status - Status - Completed or Status - Status - In-Progress being inserted into my tags column, depending on how the fic was marked as normal.

I don't understand where that extra "Status - " came from at all and I'm very lost on how to fix that.

Also, I realized this messes with the way my title page is generated, since the title page now has Status: Status - Completed or Status: Status - In-Progress, which makes sense for my use of replace_metadata but isn't ideal. Is there a way to change just the way the status metadata piece is phrased when it's put into the tags but not on the title page of the epub? I feel like there is and I'm just missing something, but I'm not sure.

[ownedbycats]

a bit tired to explain it coherently, but try using anchors to define the beginning and end of strings, e.g.

replace_metadata: 

 author=>^Anonymous$=>Unknown
 author=>^orphan_account$=>Unknown

[XRoverMaelstromX]

Welp, that worked for the duplication in the tag, thank you! Fun fact, I tested to see if the dash was the issue, and changing the replacement phrase to Status.Completed resulted in Status.Status.Completed, and I'm seriously curious as to why not having the anchors defining the beginning and ends of the string resulted in that kind of duplication!

Do you, or anyone, know how to make it do the replacement only for where it's dropping the status into the tags but not on the title page? I can live with it being slightly awkward on the title page, but I'd prefer it not to be.