How to do conditional literal in plugboard?

[calvin-c]

On my device I prefer the file to be {series}{series_index:0>2s}-{title}. This works when there's a series & sequence. When there's no series I get the hyphen in front of the title. Can I make the hyphen conditional so it only appears when there's a series? If so, can I also make the index conditional so it only appears when the value is greater than 0? There are some 'series' that are non-sequential. Since Calibre doesn't allow a series without an index the indexes in these are all set to 0.

Thanks.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by calvin-c

On my device I prefer the file to be {series}{series_index:0>2s}-{title}. This works when there's a series & sequence. When there's no series I get the hyphen in front of the title. Can I make the hyphen conditional so it only appears when there's a series? If so, can I also make the index conditional so it only appears when the value is greater than 0? There are some 'series' that are non-sequential. Since Calibre doesn't allow a series without an index the indexes in these are all set to 0.

Thanks.

Yes. See the Advanced Formatting section of the template language manual. It explains how to do exactly what you want.

[theducks]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html

See The Advanced Section
for Example:

{series}{series_index:| - | - }{title}

The space dash are literals that are included only if there is a Series_index

It gets real tricky to suppress a 0 index in a Series. I use Zero to indicate a book that belongs to a series, but has no place in the order
I use 0.n to order those

[chaley]

Originally Posted by theducks

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html

See The Advanced Section
for Example:

{series}{series_index:| - | - }{title}

The space dash are literals that are included only if there is a Series_index

It gets real tricky to suppress a 0 index in a Series. I use Zero to indicate a book that belongs to a series, but has no place in the order
I use 0.n to order those

To convert indices with value zero to blank, try

{series_index:re(^0*$,)}

The pattern/replacement in the re() function changes any series index that is all "zero" characters (or no characters at all) to nothing, or a blank.

[theducks]

Mr {Template}, himself has spoken

[calvin-c]

Thank you. Should have realized that 'template' was a synonym for plugboard (or vice versa) but i didn't & therefore couldn't find what I wanted. As theducks said I use zero to indicate books that belong to a series but have no place in the order. Usually that's because the series itself is unordered-but now that I think about it, not always. (Some series have short story collections where the individual stories take place scattered throughout the rest of the series. I generally put those as index 0 although I'm starting to split them into the individual stories & place them appropriately when I can.)

Anyway, thanks very much.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by calvin-c

Thank you. Should have realized that 'template' was a synonym for plugboard (or vice versa) but i didn't & therefore couldn't find what I wanted.

To be a bit pedantic, something I am perhaps unfortunately wont to do, plugboard is not a synonym for template. Templates are a tool that plugboards use to accomplish their task, along with device identification, format identification, and destination field. Templates play a role for save-to-disk, send-to-device, columns built from other columns, and several other functions.

And you are welcome.

[theducks]

Calvin
0.n for no place
x.0n for a short that fits after x
x.yz is what I use for Omnibus X is the start, a non-zero y is the next and Z is the last (and this falls apart after 9 This way it sorts in close order with singles

[calvin-c]

Thanks. I don't think I go that far-if there's no 'place' then I don't care so those are all series(0). If I'm still sequencing the series when I split the collection/omnibus then I number them in order. I only use fractions in special cases (magazines where there's month & year or volume/issue) and when I need to squeeze something into a series I've already sequenced.

To Chaley, don't worry about being pedantic. I'm that way myself at times so I generally find the clarification useful. Thanks.