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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

A converter would be nice... for Geoff and oren_64. The rest of us copy and paste text at best. I think, in the long term, it will be simpler to maintain only a format for the patches.

Yes. The converter will not be perfect, and will need manual tweaking after. Also, I think it may be easier after Geoff and Oren get used to the new format, since my format has more flexibility (such as being able to use unicode escapes, being able to use int offsets, and the validation).

For copying and pasting, an advantage of my format is long patches (such as zlib ones) can be made into 1 line if needed. Here is an example:

Short:

{'Disable Reading Footer': [{Enabled: true}, {Description: "Removes the reading footer for both ePub and KePub books, leaving a 15px\nbottom margin which matches the 15px built-in top margin of ePub books.\n"}, {FindReplaceString: {Find: "ReadingFooter {\n  qproperty-footerMargin: 105;\n}\n", Replace: "ReadingFooter {min-height:15px;max-height:15px;}\n"}}, {FindReplaceString: {Find: "#caption[qApp_deviceIsTrilogy=true] {\n  font-size: 19px;\n}\n", Replace: "#caption {font-size:1px;color:transparent;}\n\0"}}]}

Readable:

# Versions: 4.6.9960 - 4.8.10956+
Disable Reading Footer:
  - Enabled: true
  - Description: |
      Removes the reading footer for both ePub and KePub books, leaving a 15px
      bottom margin which matches the 15px built-in top margin of ePub books.
  - FindReplaceString: {Find: "ReadingFooter {\n  qproperty-footerMargin: 105;\n}\n", Replace: "ReadingFooter {min-height:15px;max-height:15px;}\n"}
  - FindReplaceString: {Find: "#caption[qApp_deviceIsTrilogy=true] {\n  font-size: 19px;\n}\n", Replace: "#caption {font-size:1px;color:transparent;}\n\0"}

Long:

# Versions: 4.6.9960 - 4.8.10956+
Disable Reading Footer:
  - Enabled: true
  - Description: |
      Removes the reading footer for both ePub and KePub books, leaving a 15px
      bottom margin which matches the 15px built-in top margin of ePub books.

  - FindReplaceString: 
    Find: "ReadingFooter {\n  qproperty-footerMargin: 105;\n}\n"
    Replace: "ReadingFooter {min-height:15px;max-height:15px;}\n"

  - FindReplaceString: 
    Find: "#caption[qApp_deviceIsTrilogy=true] {\n  font-size: 19px;\n}\n"
    Replace: "#caption {font-size:1px;color:transparent;}\n\0"