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Originally Posted by davidfor
You might want to look at my posts. That is a statement I have made many times. It still doesn't stop me from wondering why in people do things. I completely understand why Jon wants to display the tags somewhere. I do not see a good reason not to display them all the time. So I am curious about the reason.
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it was a joke, not a serious speech
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Firstly, Kobo is the only one that has "Subtitle" as a separate metadata entry. Calibre doesn't have the idea at all. Hence, you need to tell calibre how to populate the subtitle. That could be done by selecting a column. But, a template is a lot more flexible. It can be as simple as "use column x", or quite complex code. The suggestions above are relatively simple examples.
But, overall, I have no idea what you think you are saying. I completely understand how to do this (as I clearly demonstrated in my reply to Jon). And this isn't the first time I suggested using the subtitle for something else. Such as page or word counts. So I understand why people want to do something like this. But, it doesn't tell me with the reason for the choices people make. Knowing the reasons will usually help to give better answers to questions like Jon's.
And, for the record, when I refer to the Kobo Utilities plugin, which can be used to do this, I generally put the word "my" in front of it. And, I am the maintainer of the KoboTouch driver in calibre. So, hopefully I do understand all this.
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If you think I was criticizing your choices on how to populate the field of subtitles or even insinuating that you don't know how to do it I assure you that it was not my intention. The model is more flexible, I wouldn't have thought of it but it's true, so you can use it for something else (I prefer not, but it is question of personal choice).
My English is not so good and may be that something I write does not fully reflect my intentions but if I read again I can't find where I would have ever said that you would not know how to do it or questioned your abilities.
And, at the end, I think that Your driver is a very good work and it give us a much better experience with Kobo. I was just surprised about the use of a field to write on Kobo something else.