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Old 07-03-2016, 12:51 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DaltonST View Post
Since you are not going to add labels for datatype=comments in the book details view, adding a new datatype is the only other choice.
Not quite, chaley's proposal allows calibre to distinguish between comments fields that should be displayed as free form text and comments fields that should be displayed as single line, title like text. That means that the Book Details panel can use that information to treat these fields differently.

And his proposal has the advantage of being far less likely to break things.
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