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I'm confused by your response above. The Connect to Folder option is meant to be used as a device. So you should be sending the books to the connected folder via Send to Device.
Connect to a folder via the Connect/Share icon. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 10-03-2010 at 12:55 AM. |
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Sorry Walt
I thought I was clear that the plugboard didn't work with connect to device I have tried that multiple times I can connect to a folder and send the book to the folder/device but the series information is not added. The manual says it does not work with connect to device or save to disk, but implies that it uses the save to disk function to do it and the save to disk and folder device are both listed in the drop down menu under plugboards I am pretty new to kindle-ing so am probably making this more difficult than it has to be. Probably I can use save to disk template and start a new library for her or send a bunch at a time to the kindle and copy them back to computer. I want her to have a good selection but not have them all on the kindle at once as this will overwhelm her and she will be scared to use it. Anyway thanks for the input Helen |
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plugboards work fine with books saved via save-to-disk and to the folder device. At least they do for me. Quote:
Templates and plugboards are used for different things. If you want series information in the title of the book *in the book*, use a plugboard. If you want series information *in the file name*, use a template. If you want the same information in both places, consider creating a composite custom column then using that column in both places. |
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Alrighty.
Now I am really confused Self inflicted confusion is the worst kind. I had forgotten I had changed the kindle plugin template. Thanks |
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Just checking again.
Can anybody tell me how to get the author name to display as Initial and Surname, in either order, on my K3 using Plugboards? Brewjono. |
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1) I assume that your authors are in FN LN order (FirstName LastName), and that your author_sort values are LN, FN order. If not, then don't read on. 2) uncheck 'use author sort' in the mobi output plugin. 3) create a plugboard mobi/kindle2. Destination is authors. The source box contains Code:
{author_sort:re((\, )(.).*?( &|$),\1\2\3)} Edit 2: for you regexp hackers, a note of explanation. As you will notice, the first group enclosing the comma space isn't necessary from a regexp point of view. It it there to work around a bug on 0.7.22 where backslashes aren't stripped from escaped commas in the replacement string. By using it, I don't need to put a comma into the replacement. Last edited by chaley; 10-04-2010 at 05:30 AM. |
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As of 0.7.22, try using the 'switch' function. Documentation is: Code:
switch(pattern, value, pattern, value, ..., else_value) – for each pattern, value pair, checks if the field matches the pattern and if so, returns that value. If no pattern matches, then else_value is returned. You can have as many pattern, value pairs as you want. Code:
{title:switch(^[a-dA-D],[A-D],^[e-jE-J],[E-J],^[k-qK-Q],[K_Q],^[r-zR-Z],[R-Z],[Other])} |
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The template functions 'contains', 'switch', and 're' use regexps. After all, templates manipulate text, and when manipulating text, regexps are the best there is.
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Without wanting to derail this thread: I've seen that again yesterday while parsing file names. What normally would have been a painful exercise in C/C++ was as easy as just matching a regexp to the names in Python. (I didn't work out, but the filename parsing wasn't to blame.)
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{author_sort:switch(^[A-D],[A - D],^[E-J],[E - J],^[K-O],[K - O],^[P-T],[P - T],^[U-Z],[U - Z],[Other])} |
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