New element of list returned by parse_index()

[njpig]

Hello,

About the list returned by parse_index():
1. Besides title, url, date, description and content, do we have chance to add extra new elements for the list?
2. Can we customize the style of each element?

Thanks, Fei.

[kovidgoyal]

No you can add anything, and no they are all plain text, except for description which can have html markup

[njpig]

I tried to insert <hr> like this:
desc += '<hr>'

However, looks like ebook-convert removed it.

Thanks, Fei.

[kovidgoyal]

removed it from where??

[njpig]

With code below, there is no line break between 'first line' and 'second line'.
------------------------------
....
desc = 'first line'
desc += '<br>'
desc += 'second line'
articles.append({'title': title, 'url': url, 'description': desc}
....

[kovidgoyal]

Yes, but no page break where? Where are you seeing this description? If it is in the kindle's special periodical toc then no, you cant use formatting there.

[njpig]

As I'm a newbie to Calibre and recipe, I might not fully understand you. So I clarified what I had done:
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Actually, I wanted to append author to the description so I added this code to parse_index() in foreign_policy.recipe:
desc += '<br>'
desc += author

then, run:
ebook-convert calibre/recipe/foreign_policy.recipe ./ebook.epub -d ./log --output-profile kindle_oasis -vv

then opened ebook.pub and jumped to a section menu. The line break was not output as I expected.

I checked log/processed/feed_0/index.html. The line break was not output as well.

[kovidgoyal]

Remove the output_profile and see if that helps. And dont create epubs if ou intend to use them on the kindle, create mobi directly.

[njpig]

I removed output_profile option, but did not work.

[njpig]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And dont create epubs if ou intend to use them on the kindle, create mobi directly.

Yes. I should have created mobi directly. Thanks a lot!

One more question:
Do we have chance to generate both epub and mobi by running ebook-convert just once?
I did not find a way how to do it from the manual of ebook-convert.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by njpig

Yes. I should have created mobi directly. Thanks a lot!

One more question:
Do we have chance to generate both epub and mobi by running ebook-convert just once?
I did not find a way how to do it from the manual of ebook-convert.

NO
Different pipelines.

[njpig]

Originally Posted by theducks

NO
Different pipelines.

After creating mobi directly and pushing it to kindle/kindle app via email:
1. the top/bottom nav bar disappeared
2. could not jump to cover page

Do I have chance to resolve these?

[kovidgoyal]

No, amazon prevents you from sending preiodicals by email, reformatting them as plain books, you have to use usb

[njpig]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No, amazon prevents you from sending preiodicals by email, reformatting them as plain books, you have to use usb

Is it possible to generate common mobi ebook rather than periodicals via convert-book?

I did not find any option with calibre ebook-convert manual.

[kovidgoyal]

No, and why would you want to do that? If you do, just do a MOBI to MOBI conversion after generating your initial periodical MOBI.