I've been thinking if using some long text custom columns to hold some chunks of HTML that would show up in Book Details. However I prefer to create & maintain the HTML outside of Calibre because a) I use things like tables & drop downs, and b) the space & function available in Calibre's Metadata Editor is limited.
I can cut the HTML from my IDE editor and paste into a Long Text Custom Column and it works fine, but its tedious and fraught with version management pitfalls.
I would suit me better if there was a Column Type of 'outsourced long text' that contained a file link to my HTML file, which the Book Details painter would read and render the same as an 'embedded long text' Column.
For the record I do not want to put the HTML in the book folder, in the HTML itself I put a link to the file which is located elsewhere (i.e. self reference), that location is managed by subversion.
All I'm seeking at this stage is an opinion on
- is it 'doable'
- how difficult is it
- whether it would undermine the Calibre architecture,
I don't want to take on something that will 'break' Calibre, nor do I want to take on something that someone au fait with Calibre's internals could and is willing to do in 30 minutes what would probably take me a week. After 40+ years at it, I now find programming tedious, so make that three weeks
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