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Originally Posted by wjBLqf-_9
Thank you for your work on the Calibre plugin "EpubMerge"!
Would you please consider adding the following feature to your plugin?
In the plugin config page, please put a section to programatically configure frequently-performed-follow-up-tasks
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So, the request is to give EpubMerge a post processing feature that the user can configure "programmatically" to do basically anything? From your examples, including, but not limited to:
- Setting library metadata on the new such as title and series from in the input data by;
- Reading/using the full range of metadata from the input books, and;
- Calling other plugins (Generate Cover) or built-in actions (Calibre's generate cover).
At that point you are, IMO, arguably re-inventing Calibre's plugin system. The
Action Chains plugin has given it a try and it is hugely complex. I am not interested in adding that level of complexity to EpubMerge.
I might be willing to consider some parts of your specific requests, especially if other users agree they are worthwhile.
Title
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Originally Posted by wjBLqf-_9
#1 = Give the end user the ability to configure the plugin how to programatically auto name the new merged epub:
"Series Name" "Lowest Series Index"-"highest series index" "(Anthology)"
eg: "Sword of Truth 01-23 (Anthology)"
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EM already has code to use the series name for title if all input books share a series.
It should be possible to add code to search the library for the series, compare the number of books found to the number of input books, and to use "Series low-high AnthologyWord" if the number of input books and number of books in series don't match.
That doesn't address cases of skipping numbers, ie, including 1 and 3 but not 2 resulting in a 2 chapter merge titled 1-3.
Series on Merge Book
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Originally Posted by wjBLqf-_9
#2 = Give the end user the ability to configure the plugin to update the newly merged epub files's series index number to a specified value.
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EpubMerge doesn't populate the merged book's Series column. What would it even use? In the case given, merging books in a series, you definitely
don't want the same series name.
And EM already opens the "Edit metadata" dialog for you so you can set it as you like.
Cover Generation
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Originally Posted by wjBLqf-_9
#3 = Give the end user the ability to configure the plugin to regenerate the default cover of the newly merged epub.
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Everybody assumes generating a cover is easy.
But then everybody wants to do it a different way and then it isn't easy anymore. I've gone down that path before and I don't plan to again.
I use a shortcut/hotkey to call Generate Cover. I can generate my preferred default cover in two key strokes: 'g' 'Enter'.