Search for books with author notes and show one book per author

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

And here I thought I was being creative by doing this to the Formats column:

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quite similar to my current ones



I would use cover grid most of the time, but recently I've started to play with icons in book list, and the way I'm using them causes misalignments in the title column:

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

quite similar to my current ones

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I would use cover grid most of the time, but recently I've started to play with icons in book list, and the way I'm using them causes misalignments in the title column:

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As a suggestion, I would advise that the icon images have a transparent background. You will notice a more pleasant visual change

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Hi Wiggo, I liked your icons for book formats. They fit better on dark theme than the ones I'm using. Would you mind sharing them in a zip attachment?

I'd never thought of using a column just for symbols, seems a good thing to do!

Here you are!

Originally Posted by chaley

My guess is that "Dan Adams" is the author of books in a different series or no series, and one of those books is appearing ahead of the books with series with a note.

Order is important in "and" search clauses. Clauses following an "and" operate of the results of the previous search clauses. As such they don't see any books already filtered out. This "shortcutting" improves search performance a lot.

Try changing the order of the search to

search:"=#Has.Series notes" and search:"=#Has._One book per author"

This order ensures that the one-book-per-author search operates on the results of the has-series-notes search.

I always click on "One book per author" last in the tag browser, but it looks like the alphabetical order in the tag browser is decisive, not the click order

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by dunhill

As a suggestion, I would advise that the icon images have a transparent background. You will notice a more pleasant visual change

Sure, I've noticed that recently and I'm glad google images allows searching for transparent icons! Now I only use non-transparent images if there's no suitable transparent alternative.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Here you are!

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I would use cover grid most of the time, but recently I've started to play with icons in book list, and the way I'm using them causes misalignments in the title column:

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I use this icon as a placeholder when I want to avoid misalignments. (I also use it to hide 'Unknown' in the authors field.)

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I use this icon as a placeholder when I want to avoid misalignments. (I also use it to hide 'Unknown' in the authors field.)

good idea, an invisible icon as a placeholder can be useful, thanks

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I use this icon as a placeholder when I want to avoid misalignments. (I also use it to hide 'Unknown' in the authors field.)

I can't see anything. Where is the icon?



SCNR

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

I always click on "One book per author" last in the tag browser, but it looks like the alphabetical order in the tag browser is decisive, not the click order

Does it work when the search terms are in the order I suggest?

And yes, the tag browser doesn't know the click order. It emits the search terms in the order they appear in the tag browser (I think), which may or may not be alphabetic.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Now I only use non-transparent images if there's no suitable transparent alternative.

On windows, irfanview (and probably other programs) can change a color to be transparent. You can click in the icon to select which color to use.

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by chaley

On windows, irfanview (and probably other programs) can change a color to be transparent. You can click in the icon to select which color to use.

Or online https://www.remove.bg/

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

You're very welcome!

I got the icons from https://www.flaticon.com

Originally Posted by chaley

Does it work when the search terms are in the order I suggest?

Yep, it works with the correct order - thank you so much, chaley.