Comments - colour background with links

transmitthis · 12-06-2011, 03:20 PM

Just a quick question.

Copying some text and links and adding it to my "comments" for a book.

Thing is what I copy has a white background, while the normal one is grayish.
Looks real bad (to me)

Can't use the above toolbar to remove the formating as I will loose all the links.

Is the only way to change this to copy all the Html and edit it manually?

DoctorOhh · 12-06-2011, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by transmitthis

Is the only way to change this to copy all the Html and edit it manually?

Select the book, click the Edit metadata window then under the Comments area click on the HTML source tab and manually remove the offending color codes.

transmitthis · 12-07-2011, 05:01 AM

Hrm.. thought so.

Manually doing it on something like this is too time consuming

Spoiler:

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3>Prolific novelist Stross pauses to collect short stories that have not (yet) been stitched up into his longer work. Stories that move the U.S.–U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award–winner Missile Gap), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox (MAXOS) and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland (Snowball's Chance) demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror and espionage. He also pays homage to his literary forebears, combining Lovecraft and the Iran-Contra scandal (The Colder War) and bringing in Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould as characters. Though individual pieces are well-done and deservedly popular, the collection has an overall sense of early drafts and reworkings of other pieces, as with Trunk and Disorderly, a P.G. Wodehouse–on–Mars test run for 2008's Saturn's Children. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. <h3>Review</h3>"A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide-someone like Stross." -Popular Science "The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross...[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, 60 or 600 years' time." -New York Times "Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow." -Gardner Dozois, Editor, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine "Charles Stross is the most spectacular sciencefiction writer of recent years." -Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End <i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); ">Wireless (2009, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780441017195" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0-441-01719-5</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); display: inline !important; float: none; ">), containing<ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAAB W4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5c cllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHw ALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); "><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Missile Gap” (One Million A.D., 2005, edited by Gardner Dozois, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780739462737" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0-73946-273-7</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Rogue Farm” (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Without_a_Net_(book)" title="Live Without a Net (book)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Live Without a Net</a>, 2003, edited by Lou Anders, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780451459459" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0451459459</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“A Colder War” (Spectrum SF 3, 2000) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAAC NMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5c cllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3w K7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8 V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">available online</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“MAXOS” (Nature, 2005)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Down on the Farm” (Tor.com, 2008) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/07/down-on-the-farm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAAC NMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5c cllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3w K7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8 V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">available online</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Unwirer” with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow" title="Cory Doctorow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Cory Doctorow</a> (ReVisions, 2004 edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780756402402" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0-75640-240-2</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Snowball's Chance” (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia:_New_Scottish_Speculative_Fiction" title="Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction</a>, 2005, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781841830865" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-1-84183-086-5</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Trunk and Disorderly” (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Palimpsest”; Best Novella winner, 2010 Hugo Awards</li></ul>

"One of the most flexible and intellectually powerful authors operating in modern SF." -SF Diplomat</div>

Anyway yes, I select it and copy it to notepad and do a copy / replace on the "255" to "240"

Didn't that panel used to be white one time? - shame its grey if most of the web, where you copy stuff from is going to be white.

I suppose just putting in txt and then copying any links individually is the other way to go.

Defiantly room here for some tweaking or something

transmitthis · 12-07-2011, 09:02 AM

Found out how I should be doing it.

The background replacer icon works
So workflow is as follows.

Download metadata and comments as normal.
Find more info you want to add..
Copy from web as normal and past into comment field
Select text and then the Background icon and change the 3 RGB colours to 240
(Add that colour to custom colours, so its quick next time)

12-06-2011, 03:20 PM	#1
transmitthis Addict Posts: 288 Karma: 1003542 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Google Nexus 7 16GB	Comments - colour background with links Just a quick question. Copying some text and links and adding it to my "comments" for a book. Thing is what I copy has a white background, while the normal one is grayish. Looks real bad (to me) Can't use the above toolbar to remove the formating as I will loose all the links. Is the only way to change this to copy all the Html and edit it manually?

12-07-2011, 05:01 AM	#3
transmitthis Addict Posts: 288 Karma: 1003542 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Google Nexus 7 16GB	Hrm.. thought so. Manually doing it on something like this is too time consuming Spoiler: <div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Prolific novelist Stross pauses to collect short stories that have not (yet) been stitched up into his longer work. Stories that move the U.S.–U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award–winner Missile Gap), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox (MAXOS) and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland (Snowball's Chance) demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror and espionage. He also pays homage to his literary forebears, combining Lovecraft and the Iran-Contra scandal (The Colder War) and bringing in Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould as characters. Though individual pieces are well-done and deservedly popular, the collection has an overall sense of early drafts and reworkings of other pieces, as with Trunk and Disorderly, a P.G. Wodehouse–on–Mars test run for 2008's <em>Saturn's Children</em>. <em>(July)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>"A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide-someone like Stross."<br>-<em>Popular Science</em><br></p><p>"The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross...[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, 60 or 600 years' time."<br>-<em>New York Times</em><br></p><p>"Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow."<br>-Gardner Dozois, Editor, <em>Asimov's Science Fiction</em> magazine<br></p><p>"Charles Stross is the most spectacular sciencefiction writer of recent years."<br>-Vernor Vinge, author of <em>Rainbows End</em><br></p><p><em><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); ">Wireless</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); display: inline !important; float: none; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); display: inline !important; float: none; ">(2009,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); display: inline !important; float: none; "> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780441017195" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0-441-01719-5</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); display: inline !important; float: none; ">), containing</span></em></p><em><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAAB W4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5c cllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHw ALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); "><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Missile Gap” (<i>One Million A.D.</i>, 2005, edited by Gardner Dozois, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780739462737" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0-73946-273-7</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Rogue Farm” (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Without_a_Net_(book)" title="Live Without a Net (book)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Live Without a Net</a></i>, 2003, edited by Lou Anders, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780451459459" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0451459459</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“A Colder War” (<i>Spectrum SF 3</i>, 2000) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAAC NMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5c cllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3w K7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8 V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">available online</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“MAXOS” (<i>Nature</i>, 2005)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Down on the Farm” (Tor.com, 2008) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/07/down-on-the-farm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAAC NMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5c cllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3w K7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8 V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">available online</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Unwirer” with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow" title="Cory Doctorow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Cory Doctorow</a> (<i>ReVisions</i>, 2004 edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780756402402" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-0-75640-240-2</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Snowball's Chance” (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia:_New_Scottish_Speculative_Fiction" title="Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction</a></i>, 2005, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781841830865" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">ISBN 978-1-84183-086-5</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Trunk and Disorderly” (<i>Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">“Palimpsest”; Best Novella winner, 2010 Hugo Awards</li></ul></em><p></p><p> "One of the most flexible and intellectually powerful authors operating in modern SF." <br>-<em>SF Diplomat</em></p></div> Anyway yes, I select it and copy it to notepad and do a copy / replace on the "255" to "240" Didn't that panel used to be white one time? - shame its grey if most of the web, where you copy stuff from is going to be white. I suppose just putting in txt and then copying any links individually is the other way to go. Defiantly room here for some tweaking or something Last edited by DoctorOhh; 12-07-2011 at 05:08 AM. Reason: Spoiler tag added

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12-07-2011, 09:02 AM	#4
transmitthis Addict Posts: 288 Karma: 1003542 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Google Nexus 7 16GB	Found out how I should be doing it. The background replacer icon works So workflow is as follows. Download metadata and comments as normal. Find more info you want to add.. Copy from web as normal and past into comment field Select text and then the Background icon and change the 3 RGB colours to 240 (Add that colour to custom colours, so its quick next time)

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