[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[MerlinMama]

Not sure if this is even possible, but figured it won't hurt to ask. I did try to search here and in Calibre forum, but haven't found anything.

Is there a way, when the title page is generated when UPDATING a fic, that the packaged date remains unchanged? I would like to have the date I originally added the fic, and at the moment, it changes whenever I update.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by MerlinMama

Is there a way, when the title page is generated when UPDATING a fic, that the packaged date remains unchanged? I would like to have the date I originally added the fic, and at the moment, it changes whenever I update.

There are a couple, but both a bit clunky.

First way:

First, add a Calibre custom date column. I'll assume it's called #dateadded.

Second, go into FanFicFare configuration on the Custom Columns tab. Find your new Date Added column and set it to be populated with 'Created' and check 'New Only'.

Third, to get it to appear on the titlepage, switch to the personal.ini FanFicFare config tab and enable 'Pass Calibre Columns into FanFicFare...'. Then go into personal.ini and add/change titlepage_entries to include calibre_cust_dateadded.

The default titlepage_entries value is:

titlepage_entries: seriesHTML,category,genre,language,characters,ships,status,datePublished,dateUpdated,dateCreated,rating,warnings,numChapters,numWords,site,description

You can just calibre_cust_dateadded to the end of titlepage more easily with:

extra_titlepage_entries:calibre_cust_dateadded

The clunky parts are:

1. #dateadded is empty for previousy existing books, unless you go in and fill it with something.
2. Date Added will only appear on the titlepage for books that have been updated, not when they are first created.
3. FanFicFare doesn't currently have a way to control the formatting of Calibre column dates on the titlepage. So they come out in the default format: "Date added: 2015-08-22 13:51:08+00:00"

Second way:

Go into FanFicFare configuration on the Standard Columns tab. Find the Date column and check 'New Only'.

Switch to the personal.ini FanFicFare config tab and enable 'Pass Calibre Columns into FanFicFare...'. Then go into personal.ini and add/change titlepage_entries to include calibre_std_timestamp. (You can adjust the label with something like calibre_std_timestamp_label: Date Added to calibre)

The clunky parts are:

1. By default, FanFicFare updates calibre's Date each time it's updated. So existing books will have the date you last updated them.
2. Date will only appear on the titlepage for books that have been updated, not when they are first created.
3. FanFicFare doesn't currently have a way to control the formatting of Calibre standard dates on the titlepage. So they come out in the same format as appears on your screen.

[MerlinMama]

Thanks so much for taking the time. I'll look those over and see which I think will work, or if I'll go ahead and start changing them manually. I'm just glad it wasn't a checkbox that I'd overlooked or something, which wouldn't even have surprised me too much if it was the case

[Firedancer885]

Jimm,

please check the unnew feature. If I update an anthology with a nested TOC without unnewing it first, the "(New)" mark stays in the TOC if I try to unnew it after another update. The chapter text is ok, only the TOC mark is "sticky". The mark put in with the newest update goes away with the unnew, only the mark put in with a previous update stays in.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Firedancer885

please check the unnew feature. If I update an anthology with a nested TOC without unnewing it first, the "(New)" mark stays in the TOC if I try to unnew it after another update. The chapter text is ok, only the TOC mark is "sticky". The mark put in with the newest update goes away with the unnew, only the mark put in with a previous update stays in.

I'm not able to duplicate the problem.

Can you give me an epub that shows it? Ideally, a copy before the failed unnew and one after would give me the most clues.

[Firedancer885]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I'm not able to duplicate the problem.

Can you give me an epub that shows it? Ideally, a copy before the failed unnew and one after would give me the most clues.

Not at the moment. I used the edit book feature to get rid of the marks. I will send the epubs the moment the problem comes up again. I tried to duplicate it with putting chapter ranges into the update download, but couldn't. As far as I can tell, there must be 2 different multi chapter stories in the anthology for the problem to occur. First wip gets put in --> first wip gets new mark -->second story gets put in -->second story gets mark(s) --> I try the unnew --> second story gets unnewed properly, but the first story's toc entries still show the mark (the chapter text is altered properly).

[Firedancer885]

I'm attaching an epub. Only the after unnew one. There is a mark, where there shoudn't be one. I would have sworn I edited out the mark in ch5. I hope you can make something of it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ew%20epub.epub

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Firedancer885

I'm attaching an epub. Only the after unnew one. There is a mark, where there shoudn't be one. I would have sworn I edited out the mark in ch5. I hope you can make something of it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ew%20epub.epub

I've poked at this for a while and I still can't make it happen or see anyway that it could happen.

I see that the individual toc.ncx files kept for unmerging aren't updated, but that would only maybe explain why you thought you changed it, but didn't see the change appear.

[Firedancer885]

Thanks

[schaufel]

Not sure if this has been asked before and don't particularly want to go through 34 pages to see, so sorry in advance if this has been addressed already: is there any way to toggle "Yes, I'm an adult" permanently for downloading from AO3? I don't often download fic multiple URLs at a time, and it gets annoying having to click that every single time I start a new job. Thanks in advance.

[Montana Harper]

Originally Posted by schaufel

Not sure if this has been asked before and don't particularly want to go through 34 pages to see, so sorry in advance if this has been addressed already: is there any way to toggle "Yes, I'm an adult" permanently for downloading from AO3? I don't often download fic multiple URLs at a time, and it gets annoying having to click that every single time I start a new job. Thanks in advance.

Under the FFF configuration, the tab that says "personal.ini" lets you edit your personal.ini file. At the very top, just under the [defaults] section is:

#is_adult:true

remove the # and then save it and you're good to go.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by schaufel

Not sure if this has been asked before and don't particularly want to go through 34 pages to see, so sorry in advance if this has been addressed already:
...

How about one page of FAQs?

[Tanjamuse]

Is it possible to replace a single character (this one &) with another without having to add everyplace I find it in "replace metadata".

Like this:

   characters,ships,category=>.*&.*=>§

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Is it possible to replace a single character (this one &) with another without having to add everyplace I find it in "replace metadata".

Like this:

   characters,ships,category=>.*&.*=>§

If you don't specify a metadata entry (IE, use a two part line), it will effect all metadata entries.

However, what you show in your example says 'replace everything before & and everything after it with §'.

It's more likely you want:

 &=>§

[Tanjamuse]

I've tested what you posted above and it seems to be working, but now my fandoms no longer show in the correct order.

I have this in my personal.ini:

keep_in_order_category:true

but the metadata for the fandoms for this story are sorted alphabetically when they show up in Calibre.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4680278