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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
I use MS Word heavily. I had no trouble learning to use it, including some of the more complicated aspects...
Same goes for when I first got Adobe Acrobat Standard a little over a year ago.
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A better example to compare to would be Excel instead of WYSIWYG tools. Excel has a very complex formula language and even includes and entire Visual Basic scripting engine.
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Originally Posted by garcle
A point that comes to mind though is this, how many regular expression are needed for Calibre? I have a programming background so can hack a regex together for my needs, but there is probably a set of regex classes that cover 90% of Calibre user requirements.
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Nope. Having dealt with the header and footer regex stuff there isn't even anything close to one regex to rule them all. As far as content goes ebooks are formatted so differently that even books by the same author and in the same series often need different regexes.
Same goes to extracting metadata from file names that there so many different ways people have their books names there is no one regex that works most of the time. Each variance needs a different regex. While it might be nice to include defaults that work against a number of cases, I don't think throwing 20 different regexes at a user and saying pick one would help much. Especially when there is a good change none of them will work.