Full justification of comments?

[Ersatzreifen]

When editing the comments in the metadata I like to fully justify the text. Unfortunately most of the books already in the library are in ragged-right format. Is there an easy way to have calibre fully justify all comments? Can full justification be set as a default in place of ragged-right?

[BetterRed]

@Ersatzreifen - you should be able to do it with Bulk Metadata Edit, difficulty depends on the 'state' of the HTML, if it's simple and well formed then replacing <p> with <p style="text-align: justify;"> should do the trick

Try it on a couple of books - others with deeper knowledge of HTML, RegEx may have a better solution

Oh yes, and as always, with Bulk Metadata Edit, backup your library before doing massive updates

BR

[Ersatzreifen]

I've tested that on a few books, and found that so long as the paragraph tag exists exactly as <p> it does work. This is confirmed.

But most tags turned out to be in the form of <p class="description">, so I made a second filter to look for that condition only, and change it to <p class="description" style="text-align: justify;">, but that doesn't work at all: after running the filter I find that nothing has changed! The test fields in the search & replace filter indicate that it's going to work, but it didn't. What am I doing wrong?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Ersatzreifen

I've tested that on a few books, and found that so long as the paragraph tag exists exactly as <p> it does work. This is confirmed.

But most tags turned out to be in the form of <p class="description">, so I made a second filter to look for that condition only, and change it to <p class="description" style="text-align: justify;">, but that doesn't work at all: after running the filter I find that nothing has changed! The test fields in the search & replace filter indicate that it's going to work, but it didn't. What am I doing wrong?

Can you post the HTML of one of the recalcitrant Comments in code tags (that's the '#' button in Advanced mode)

BR

[Ersatzreifen]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Ersatzreifen - you should be able to do it with Bulk Metadata Edit, difficulty depends on the 'state' of the HTML, if it's simple and well formed then replacing <p> with <p style="text-align: justify;"> should do the trick

Try it on a couple of books - others with deeper knowledge of HTML, RegEx may have a better solution

Oh yes, and as always, with Bulk Metadata Edit, backup your library before doing massive updates

BR

No joy.
Only some of the book comments contain the <p> tag. For those which do your suggestion did work, but for those which had no <p> tag, which is most of them, it couldn't work.

What's needed is a setting in Calibre to force the comments, all of them, to full justification, except where other justification is chosen by the user. Perhaps the powers that be can program such a setting into the Preferences. That would be nice!

Thanks for the help, but....
(I'm still looking for a workable solution for this, until a new setting magically appears in Preferences! {Hint, hint, hint! })

[BetterRed]

@Ersatzreifen - formal requests for enhancement can be lodged here ==>> Bugs : calibre.

BR