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Originally Posted by DaltonST
The Job Spy plugin has a tool named 'Extract Original Title/Translator to Update Custom Columns [Selected EPUBs]'. Been around for years.
DaltonST
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As my 1st post in this thread stated I am aware of & attempting to use that, but it requires the
Translator to be a
Comment type field with a big text block, no indexing ability, & requires you to select the books & find the
Extract Original Title/Translator to Update Custom Columns inside a cumbersome menu. It's great that it exists, but it is far from ideal.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
translators are not something common enough to warrant their own builtin field. As for adding a mechanism to map epub fields to custom columns, its not something I think is important enough to spend my time on, if you disagree, feel free to work on it and submit a patch.
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I appreciate the feedback. & thank you for the great software. & I want to be clear I meant no disrespect to you or the software, just noted things that seemed odd to me to not be included, but I'm very much aware that things behind the scenes are often more complicated than they appear to those who do not know.
As for submitting a patch I'm excited to know that that is an option, I had only thought of the possibility of creating a plugin but that seemed like something that if it didn't already exist was probably due to limitations in the software. I personally will likely attempt to see if that's something I can work on, but my time, & coding skills (basics of BASIC, C++, HTML from a long time ago, none of which I've ever really used) are both lacking enough to not expect anything to come of it unfortunately.
Again, thank you for letting us know that it's not something you, & I assume the other developers, are interested in. I can't fault you for that, the software is great, & constantly getting better, so I'm sure you have plenty of work on your plate already.