04-21-2021, 04:06 PM | #1 |
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External HTML Editor to edit Book Details panel Comments?
I was wondering if there was any way to link (and if so is there a particular editor that this has been found to work well with and and easily be integrated) an HTML Editor (with WYSIWIG) to use to edit the Comments section of the Book Details pane. (I get frustrated using the built in one - because I have to switch over from the HTML to the other tab to see it - then go back - and I can't search and replace and a number of other things - and when I go back I lose anything I may have "separated" out to try and focus on working on. The built in editor compacts the code every time - whereas I find it hard to work on it and navigate through it without using line breaks and tabs.
I thought maybe there was a way to connect this function with an external editor - again that would have WYSIWIG capacity so I could see the changes as I was making them. I started trying to answer this question myself - a few hours ago - which only led me down so many side paths, never getting back to the work I was supposed to be doing on the library itself, that I gave up - and figured I would just ask. I hope I am clear in what I am looking to be able to do. I'd appreciate any help. |
04-21-2021, 07:26 PM | #2 |
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In short - I don't know of anything. The comments html code is in the calibre database, the schema of which is specific to calibre, so it would have to be a calibre plugin.
I don't need the dc:description (which is where Comments end up) in my ebook files, so I move any imported "Comments" to a custom column long text called "Blurb". Custom long text columns can be edited from the book list (in a resizable window) - it works best if you cloak the cell with an icon, viz: Given that window is resizable, it may be possible to provide an option to have side-by-side panels of code and preview, viz: But keeping them in synch might be tricky if editing is allowed in both panels. Aside: if calibre shipped with an icon on the Comments column (or if a user added one) perhaps editing it via F2 the Book list could be unblocked. BR |
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04-21-2021, 10:40 PM | #3 |
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Whats preventing you from simply copy pasting the html into an editor of your choice and copy pasting it back?
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04-22-2021, 12:09 AM | #4 |
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I copy the html and paste it into an external editor for editing. Now if there was someway to keep QT from munging my edited html after pasting it back into calibre...
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04-22-2021, 02:54 AM | #5 |
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