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Tactical Fart · 02-16-2010, 01:24 AM

I've been looking at the documentation a little harder (since my post about increasing the TOC past 50) and found a bunch of metadata arguments that I found useful. However, the program I'm writing has a flaw. It uses calibre's ebook-convert command by sending it to the OS as a command. My program gets data from the internet, parses and organizes it, then calls ebook-convert to make the ebook. But if an author's name has white space, like "John Doe", and I use the "--author" argument, it will only see

Code:

-- author "John

No, that's not a typo. It will accept the quotation marks as part of the argument. The only work around I can see is to put the information into the html file(s) and let calibre finish the job. Is there a way to make ebook-convert look in a certain file for metadata, such as author, comments, etc, when converting?

02-16-2010, 01:24 AM	#293
Tactical Fart Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: G1	I've been looking at the documentation a little harder (since my post about increasing the TOC past 50) and found a bunch of metadata arguments that I found useful. However, the program I'm writing has a flaw. It uses calibre's ebook-convert command by sending it to the OS as a command. My program gets data from the internet, parses and organizes it, then calls ebook-convert to make the ebook. But if an author's name has white space, like "John Doe", and I use the "--author" argument, it will only see Code: -- author "John No, that's not a typo. It will accept the quotation marks as part of the argument. The only work around I can see is to put the information into the html file(s) and let calibre finish the job. Is there a way to make ebook-convert look in a certain file for metadata, such as author, comments, etc, when converting?