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Originally Posted by 01100001
In similar APIs (CMSs), to my knowledge, usually there's a way to get a field term (e.g., different taxonomy/tag terms) as text-only as well as linked-text (i.e. both text and link). I was assuming the same when I asked this question. Indeed a bummer that there's no simpler/built-in way.
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Problem: calibre was never conceived of as a CMS in the sense you are describing. To do what you describe some kind of UI template scheme is necessary, and large parts of calibre aren't amenable to that because of interesting interlocking data semantics. It could be possible (I think) for "reports" like book details, but making the templates recreate the current look would be interesting. In any event, I am not interested in doing that work.
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I want to learn Python and do something about it (a plugin perhaps).  As of now I have no programming knowledge, except for some googlefu.
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A plugin can't solve this problem because rendering for book details is built into calibre. The first thing required would be to turn the current renderer into a plugin, and probably the field selector code as well. I don't see that happening anytime soon, but who knows?
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Bugger - I've wanted to have Tags, Authors etc display as a vertical one-item-per-line list in Book Details since forever. I was hoping you were on track to teasing out a simple solution.
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Most of what you both want (I think) is in calibre source now. I didn't bother with bullets and their hanging indents.