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ownedbycats · 03-13-2026, 10:29 PM

For example, if I want to set Animals/Horses instead of Animals.Horses there's no option to set '/' as a splitter, or some other arbitrary character.

Is it impossible/impractical to implement that, or just "always worked that way and nobody asked otherwise"?

03-13-2026, 10:29 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,719 Karma: 81419259 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Is there a technical reason why periods are the only delimiter for hierchecial tags? For example, if I want to set Animals/Horses instead of Animals.Horses there's no option to set '/' as a splitter, or some other arbitrary character. Is it impossible/impractical to implement that, or just "always worked that way and nobody asked otherwise"? Last edited by ownedbycats; 03-13-2026 at 10:34 PM.