[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