Please help on a Save to Disk template

[Dammie]

I've been trying to start a fresh with my calibre library but it has been a while and even though I've gone back to refresh my memory, my new template is not working. I'm using -

{author_sort:.1}/{author}/{series}/{title} - {series}{series_index:0>2s| -|- }{author}

Which I want to be -
A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author

eg: J > Robert Jordan > Wheel of Time > The Eye of the World – Wheel of Time -01- Robert Jordan

But its just not happening and I can't figure it out. I also, like another forum post I have some series have novellas or short stories between books, so I have some entries' series numbers labeled like 2.50. Which I want to save series as 01, 02, 02.50, 03.
Which the response was -

{author_sort}/{series:||/}{series_index:re(^(\d)(\.|$),0\1\2)||. }{title}

but I am just not sure how to add this into my template.


Please help I am really confused!
Thank you for any help

[eschwartz]

According to what you wrote, it should be working just fine. What are you getting instead?

And when you want to save as 01, 02, 02.5, 03 do you mean as a subfolder of series? If so, you just need to add /{series_index}/ to your template.

Also, your current template has a problem that makes it not work properly if there is no series. Do you see the

:|{stuff1}|{stuff2}

in your template? This allows you to only add {stuff1} before the series_index and {stuff2} after, IF series_index exists.
See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/temp...ced-formatting for a more in-depth explanation.

Your current template should therefore look like this:

{author_sort:.1}/{author}/{series:||/}{title}{series:| - |}{series_index:0>2s| -|- }{author}

not like this

{author_sort:.1}/{author}/{series}/{title} - {series}{series_index:0>2s| -|- }{author}

I have moved the "/" which separates folders from after the series to the conditional after-the-series-if-series-exists, and same goes for the " - " right before the second {series}.

if you wish to switch from "A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author" to "A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Series Number (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author" then use this instead (addition in red)

{author_sort:.1}/{author}/{series:||/}{series_index:0>2s||/}{title}{series:| - |}{series_index:0>2s| -|- }{author}

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

According to what you wrote, it should be working just fine. What are you getting instead?

And when you want to save as 01, 02, 02.5, 03 do you mean as a subfolder of series? If so, you just need to add /{series_index}/ to your template.

Also, your current template has a problem that makes it not work properly if there is no series. Do you see the in your template? This allows you to only add {stuff1} before the series_index and {stuff2} after, IF series_index exists.
See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/temp...ced-formatting for a more in-depth explanation.

Your current template should therefore look like this:



not like this



I have moved the "/" which separates folders from after the series to the conditional after-the-series-if-series-exists, and same goes for the " - " right before the second {series}.

if you wish to switch from "A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author" to "A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Series Number (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author" then use this instead (addition in red)

why do you think this should work?
I see 1 glaring error (according to the example on the STD template page)

{author_sort[1]}

I have used the field substring in 2 places:
{author_sort[1]}_authors/ ...
{series[1]}-series/

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by theducks

why do you think this should work?
I see 1 glaring error (according to the example on the STD template page)

{author_sort[1]}

I have used the field substring in 2 places:
{author_sort[1]}_authors/ ...
{series[1]}-series/

Can you please explain what that is supposed to mean? The only thing I can get out of that is "use substring in series" and I'm not sure how that fits in.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Can you please explain what that is supposed to mean? The only thing I can get out of that is "use substring in series" and I'm not sure how that fits in.

You did show you wanted a substring of the Authors name
square brackets with a 1 returns the first letter of Author_sort, which is usually the last name

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by theducks

You did show you wanted a substring of the Authors name
square brackets with a 1 returns the first letter of Author_sort, which is usually the last name

I think you will need a zero there actually. But the ":.1" already does that.

And what was that about series???

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I think you will need a zero there actually. But the ":.1" already does that.

And what was that about series???

:.1 Where did this notation come from? NOT the help section on the STD template screen.

Using in series is:
Just an Example doing the same type of thing

[eschwartz]

Well then, it seems we're both right, because using :.1 from the example (this is my first time using a substring, and first thing I did was test out the OP's string) works.

Plus this, once I looked it up in response to your prompting: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/temp...ced-formatting

If you want only the first two letters of the data, use:

{author_sort:.2} - Only the first two letter of the author sort name

The calibre template language comes from python and for more details on the syntax of these advanced formatting operations, look at the Python documentation.

[eschwartz]

On experimenting, it seems "[number]" returns the character at the numbered offset, starting from 0 not 1 and ":.number" will return the first "number" characters.

But I can't actually find any reference to "[number]" on the calibre manual -- where did you see it exactly?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

On experimenting, it seems "[number]" returns the character at the numbered offset, starting from 0 not 1 and ":.number" will return the first "number" characters.

But I can't actually find any reference to "[number]" on the calibre manual -- where did you see it exactly?

Look Here!

[eschwartz]

Ah, cool. I usually get my info from http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html

Must remember this.

[Dammie]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

According to what you wrote, it should be working just fine. What are you getting instead?

And when you want to save as 01, 02, 02.5, 03 do you mean as a subfolder of series? If so, you just need to add /{series_index}/ to your template.

Also, your current template has a problem that makes it not work properly if there is no series. Do you see the in your template? This allows you to only add {stuff1} before the series_index and {stuff2} after, IF series_index exists.
See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/temp...ced-formatting for a more in-depth explanation.

Your current template should therefore look like this:



not like this



I have moved the "/" which separates folders from after the series to the conditional after-the-series-if-series-exists, and same goes for the " - " right before the second {series}.

if you wish to switch from "A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author" to "A (1st letter of Authors last name) > Author (First Last) > Series (if applicable) > Series Number (if applicable) > Title - Series -03- Author" then use this instead (addition in red)

Thanks for all the help! I was actually making a silly mistake in thinking it would change the way books are added to library and not saving to disc. Is there a way to change my template into regular expression?

When I used it properly and used your example eschwartz there is a problem when there is not a series. The title and author run together as in - CursedJennifer L. Armentrout instead of Cursed - Jennifer L. Armentrout I tried to fix it by adding a - to the template but then when a book has a series I get two -- . What would be the proper way to fix it?

Thanks again!!

[eschwartz]

Whoops! Here you go:

{author_sort:.1}/{author}/{series:||/}{title} - {series}{series_index:0>2s| -|- }{author}

The " - " should not have a series dependency. The part in red will not be there if series=null. Versus my original:

{author_sort:.1}/{author}/{series:||/}{title}{series:| - |}{series_index:0>2s| -|- }{author}

After my lecture and everything, I make the same mistake. IN my corrections....

This time I tested in calibre.

[eschwartz]

What do you want to do with a regular expression?

[Dammie]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

What do you want to do with a regular expression?

Thank you, the new template works really well

I was thinking I might be able to use it to save the calibre library as eg: J > Robert Jordan > Wheel of Time > The Eye of the World – Wheel of Time -01- Robert Jordan instead of the standard Author > Title