[chaley]

Originally Posted by maddz

Well, in the end I created a custom column for the various nominations and used the following template:

{#subseries:|| {#subseries_index} - } {#myshelves} {#hugonominees:|| - {#hugonominees}}

As said in the calibre template documentation, don't use subtemplates Single Function Mode.

However, I don't understand why it isn't inserting the hyphen between my shelves and the nominations list when there is an entry in the latter field.

Are you are referring to the last expression?

{#hugonominees:|| - {#hugonominees}}

The expression doesn't make sense to me. It appears to be trying to include #hugonominees twice, with a hyphen between them. And again, the subtemplate shouldn't be used.

I think you want

{#hugonominees:| - |}

Ideally, I want each section to be on a separate line, but I can't figure out newlines in the template language. I am guessing I should use something like character('newline') or \n...

The character() function works only in General Program Mode.

I think this GPM template gets close to what you want.

program:
# This template produces a three line result.
# Line 1 is the subseries, or - if there isn't one.
# Line 2 is the shelves, or '-' if there aren't any
# Line 3 is the hugo nominees, or '-' if there aren't any

	ss = $subseries;
	ssi = $subseries_index;
	if ss then 
		ss_res = ss & ' - ' & ssi
	else
		ss_res = '-'
	fi;

	shelves = ifempty($#myshelves, '-');

	hugo = ifempty($hugonominees, '-');

	return ss_res & character('newline') & shelves & character('newline') & hugo