[DaltonST]

Kovid,

I would like FTS to index RIS "Citation" file formats, which are simply UTF-8 Text in a Non-TXT File Extension/format in Calibre, but that have a rigidly defined content structure via RIS Tags (e.g. AB - "Abstract") for which there is a great deal of functionality in Calibre now via 3 different plugins.

I have not been able to determine any method to do so other than writing a new InputFormatPlugin (and a new OutputFormatPlugin) to "convert" UTF-8 Text RIS into UTF-8 Text TXT, saving a .ris rather than a .txt.

Is there another way I haven't found, such as an internal dict in an already-existing Calibre module that relates an input format to its equivalent input and output format which could be updated by an existing plugin, such as: {'RIS':'TXT'} ?

Or by MIME Type? {'RIS':'application/x-research-info-systems'} and {'application/x-research-info-systems':'text/plain'}.

Or should I write 2 new conversion plugins just to do the above?

Thanks for your help.

DaltonST