Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I hope you'll be willing to share your docs some day. I readily admit I'm not a good documentarian.
|
I think you've done a good job within the ini files itself and elsewhere or good enough to get people started. When going through my old personal.ini, I wish I'd thought to add my own comments to explain what I was doing.
I'm already sharing the document with a small audience of folks, some already familiar with FanFicFare & Calibre, some not at all. Happy to share it with more as I go, though I want to get it cleaned up a bit more first. And figure out the best place to publish it.
Anyone know of any other guides out there? Or useful blog posts? I know there have been some blog posts over the years that covered some things, but when I went looking recently I didn't find too much beyond Amalthia's posts on Dreamwidth/Livejournal from way back when (which were helpful then and are still helpful).
I thought more people had shared personal.ini details in posts in the past but I couldn't find as much as I did when I last looked. It's possible they were online and have since vanished.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmXinu
When to use add_to_X and when not to: As a general rule, use add_to_X when you want to add settings to more general sections and don't when you want to replace them. So when settings up custom columns for AO3 specific metadata, add_to_ makes perfect sense.
|
Thank you! I thought it was something like that, but realized this was the rare case where I started with something I copied from an old personal.ini without looking into why I had things that way.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmXinu
|
Ah yes, I did read this at some point not long ago, just didn't really make the connection when I was covering custom columns. Glad I haven't gone in the wrong direction with the AO3 custom columns. I've been testing out the different bookmark options. (Warning people in my guide that just because you can create columns for all these things, doesn't mean you should! But once I started documenting them, it made sense to cover most things.)
On an unrelated topic: at this point it looks to me like there are potentially three different ways to get word counts (for most folks running Calibre with FanFicFare). Some archives (like AO3) offer counts you can download. And the Page Count plug-in can do word counts (and FanFicFare works with it). And now it sounds like Calibre can do word counts as well (perhaps it was always the case and I didn't notice until recently).
"Calculate word count?" with options "Yes, unless found on site" and "No" and "Yes, always" is in the Basic tab of FanFicFare config in addition to having similar options in the Count Pages tab.
(I think I have "Yes, unless found on site" set both in the Basic Tab and the Count Pages tab. Will that be a problem? Should I say "No" in the Basic tab if I want to use Count Pages to do word counts when word count isn't found on an archive site? I'm guessing it doesn't matter all that much, but it does make me curious which method would get priority or if the software might be off counting words twice or something.)
Thanks so much.