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Originally Posted by mirikbb
Hello, maybe someone would find this idea for new plugin also useful. Its target are mostly people who read books in multiple languages. ........ The idea is to correlate different languages of same book to each other. ...............
Miro
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@mirikbb:
There is already a way to easily correlate different languages of the same book to each other without developing a new plugin for that sole purpose.
[1] Install the 'Multi-Column Search' plugin.
[2] Install the 'View Manager' plugin.
[3] Create a custom column named '#original_title'.
[4] Populate '#original_title' with the original title used by the Author. In your example, it would be 'Airframe', and each of your 3 books would then have 'Airframe' as their '#original_title', with only the English version having a Title of 'Airframe'. The others would obviously be the translated names based on their languages.
[5] Customize 'View Manager' to include '#original_title', and change the sort to be: Author; '#original_title'; Title.
[6] Create a custom column named '#translation_group'.
[7] Using the 'Multi-Column Search' plugin as described in Page 4 of its User Guide, and which is attached below, search using an Inter-Book Query.
[8] For each 'group' returned in the Search Results, add whatever value you would like in the '#translation_group' custom column.
[9] Create a Virtual Library with the stated criterion of: '#translation_group:True'
[10] Whenever you want to only look at books for which you have multiple languages, invoke that Virtual Library.
DaltonST