MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Where does Calibre expose the Creator / Translator role.

theducks · 03-26-2023, 03:46 PM

Not from the MDE (views).

AFAIK you can only see that (role=) in the books OPF (not controlled by Calibre).

I have been manually adding various role-types into the Authors column:
Joe (trans)
Mike (creator)
Sam (illus)
Betty (ed)

BTW the () does not mess up the sort.

You could create a custom column (#roles. )
Since identifiers is not a custom type,
creator:Mike, illus:Sam

it gets ugly. matching a name with a role.

So I stick with my method.
Maybe someone will write a PI the scans for roles and makes the entru into Authors (this requires no change to Calibre)

03-26-2023, 03:46 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,127 Karma: 60406498 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Not from the MDE (views). AFAIK you can only see that (role=) in the books OPF (not controlled by Calibre). I have been manually adding various role-types into the Authors column: Joe (trans) Mike (creator) Sam (illus) Betty (ed) BTW the () does not mess up the sort. You could create a custom column (#roles. ) Since identifiers is not a custom type, creator:Mike, illus:Sam it gets ugly. matching a name with a role. So I stick with my method. Maybe someone will write a PI the scans for roles and makes the entru into Authors (this requires no change to Calibre)