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[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by laji

Why I must to wait a week for contribute, instead of 1 minute? Do the creator speak hungarian?

Because that is how long you will need to wait for the next version of calibre to be released, which will include the updated translation.

Alternatively, you could compile the translations yourself and modify your local installation.

See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html

You would need to create an override of:

C:\Program Files\Calibre2\resources\localization\locales.zip

Place your updated copy in:

%APPDATA%\calibre\resources\localization\locales.zip

And I assume you know how to compile a localization file and update the ZIP.
Assuming you have a development environment setup, you can simply run "python2 setup.py translations".

...

Thing is, most people are not quite that savvy. It's probably just a lot easier to run calibre from the same directory as the updated *.po file.
I really don't understand what is unclear about the official instructions.

[PeterT]

Have you seen the Open With plugin?

This plugin allows you to launch external applications for editing your books in Calibre.

Common uses are to allow editing a specific format of a book in an external editor (such as to edit an EPUB in Sigil), or to edit the cover of a book in an external graphics program to crop/resize it.

And why not create as many columns as are needed to get the job done.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by laji

I can not say, are you right or not - I only know own opinion, from experience. Since I posted more than 50 times - and this is the very begining of using Calibre; only the first, elementary things. So I do not think, ever I start to write a Calibre plugin. It's easier, seems to me, my earlier idea: to write a PHP/MySQL (what I am familiar with) database manager for my books, that meet my needs.

If you need to customize the user interface, you will have to either know the programming language used to write said user interface, or create your own alternative in a programming language you do know, or ask someone else to do it (and wait for them to get back).

No way around it. User Interfaces are not the standard customization target.
Try customizing Firefox, or MS Word.


Again, I don't really get what those foobar2000 and mp3tag customizations are doing, but "that creates a toolbar popup, when new song starts" sure sounds like interface redesign to me.

[laji]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

But if calibre is really too childish for you, then by all means, you don't have to use it.

I think, I must to write it down, as it not enough underlined by me: I use Calibre. Use it, because it is better, than all other book organizers. I can say: it is the best today. But it is only comparison...

The most important: all others, except of one (very wrong written - I tried it, too), can not use hierarchical groups. So, in fact, they are not book organizers.

[laji]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Again, I don't really get what those foobar2000 and mp3tag customizations are doing, but "that creates a toolbar popup, when new song starts" sure sounds like interface redesign to me.

They are only examples, but if you ask: the foobar's is File > Preferences > Default user interface > Notification area tooltip. (look attachment)

Mp3tag export file: checks, are the replay gain album gain and album peak values the same or not in the same album (for all selected songs/albums). Creates a playlist from items, where not.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Sorry, I have no idea what these are supposed to do, as I don't use mptag and none of the "preview"s seem to work.

Yes, the links seems to be broken. They all are a visual html appereance of one or more albums, in more graphical way. For this purposes I like more the foobar's look itself; but the mp3tag's export ability is a powerful diagnostic, backup and playlist creator tool. The biggest plus: loops (cycles).

[laji]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Have you seen the Open With plugin?

Yes, thank you - I answered it little upper. (I forgot about it.)

Originally Posted by PeterT

And why not create as many columns as are needed to get the job done.

I explained it here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=264834

[PeterT]

For pete's sake; in a normal programming environment one would think nothing of creating as many variables as were needed in a program to accomplish waht YOU wanted. Consider custom columns as another form of variable, as building blocks towards what YOU want to get done.

Your resistance to using them is asinine.

If it's just you don't like seeing them in custom metadata editing, maybe a polite request to Kovid to add a new attribute to a custom column; hide from display might suffice.

[laji]

Originally Posted by PeterT

...Consider custom columns as another form of variable...

If it's just you don't like seeing them in custom metadata editing, maybe a polite request to Kovid to add a new attribute to a custom column; hide from display might suffice.

I must to think about. May be, you are right.
But anything to ask from Kovid, after I wrote my honest opinions...

EDIT, LATER

Oh, no!

I thought about, and remembered/understood-again: the elementery principle of managing database is - DB record's data is DATA, constant; temporary variables, as they are only a temporary modified SECONDARY values from REALLY, primary datas, trough calculations, using functions, are principially other things. Forbidden to mix them. It's an elementary erronous idea.

Inversely: now I must think, how to get rid of this annoying, already existing in my DB "custom columns". They are written to books' files! To opf, to epub. If I want to send a book to my daughter, for example, I want to send the author's text + the REALLY data: year, language, publisher, and so on. But NOT thousands of temporary values, affecting only my DB shower/manager application. Temp values, calculated with functions, forbidden to send forward. I am sure, for this like "solution", mixing really data with temporary values, in IT school anybody get the rating 1 from 5 stars.

It very well seems in PHP/MySQL works. Most of calculations absolutly has no effect in DB, only in HTML pages, written trough PHP. Some times, in case of more complicated searches (or other tasks) we alter DB, too, but only with temporary (for calculating a PHP>HTML page) tables, and the inner MySQL motor deletes them immediately after creating the page. (Of course, I speak about a showing/filtering/serching data manipulations, not about adding a new record, or modifying a record's paramaters.)

I must (honestly!) say thank you, Peter: I could remember this elementary principle, thanks to your tip.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by laji

They are only examples, but if you ask: the foobar's is File > Preferences > Default user interface > Notification area tooltip. (look attachment)

Aha! So the program itself contains a feature to generate customizable SysTray notifications.

Seems a very specific sort of thing, I don't think calibre is in need of a notification tooltip when you are in the middle of a book...

Mp3tag export file: checks, are the replay gain album gain and album peak values the same or not in the same album (for all selected songs/albums). Creates a playlist from items, where not.

Likewise, it seems to fulfill quite a specific need.

I suppose you could compare it to the pagenumber count in a book, or something... speaking of which, there is a calibre plugin "Count Pages", which can store the page count of a book inside a custom column.
A Save-to-disk template can factor in that custom column when generating the save path for that book.

Yes, the links seems to be broken. They all are a visual html appereance of one or more albums, in more graphical way. For this purposes I like more the foobar's look itself; but the mp3tag's export ability is a powerful diagnostic, backup and playlist creator tool. The biggest plus: loops (cycles).

Well, calibre2opds (see my signature) is capable of generating html catalogs of your books. And calibre includes a server that generates a dynamic catalog of your books.

Note: The server is currently undergoing a major, long-awaited rewrite, now is the time to offer input as to what a potential facelift might entail.




All these things are specific, narrowly-focused functionality. What features, in comparison, do you think calibre should have?

[laji]

eschwartz, thank you for your response. Now I have no time to answer, do it tomorrow. But, as it, in my opinion, affects your comment, too: would you so kind, as to read my comment just above yours?

(In short: my examples were only to show, how simple, but flexible the foobar's solution with nested functions + placholders; and these temporary calculations never are written in music files metadata, of course - what about I wrote in that, above, comment.)

[theducks]

laji

You seem to be dwelling on what you perceive Calibre can't do for you, rather that what it CAN do.

Calibre runs on 3 OS
Your favorite MP3Tag runs on one.
One target is a lot simpler than three to hit.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by laji

eschwartz, thank you for your response. Now I have no time to answer, do it tomorrow. But, as it, in my opinion, affects your comment, too: would you so kind, as to read my comment just above yours?

(In short: my examples were only to show, how simple, but flexible the foobar's solution with nested functions + placholders; and these temporary calculations never are written in music files metadata, of course - what about I wrote in that, above, comment.)

I regard them as cached information.
The current values of custom template columns get saved in the database, and in the backup OPF.

It also gets saved in the EPUB metadata, but this is harmless info, saved in the calibre namespace and can be ignored.

In a totally purist sense, it could be regarded as wasteful and unclean to have them there but the Modify EPUB plugin does have the ability to purge EPUBs of all non-Dublin Core metadata for exactly that reason.

Workflow:

• Use the Embed Metadata tool to update metadata in all books.
• Use Modify EPUB to remove all non-DC metadata.
• In Preferences ==> Saving books to disk uncheck Update metadata in saved copies
• Save to disk, or copy out of the library folder.

This would not take into account plugboards.

[cybmole]

fyi - and maybe off topic. MP3tag and foobar 2000 are two of my favourite programs.

together they do for music what calibre does for books.
foobar2000 is far superior to windows' offerings for playing and organising music filessuch as flac, mp3.... very customisable & there are also tablet apps that interface with it, so I can remotely control music on my PC... foobar is free, android apps are free/cheap.
MP3tag does what the name suggests, manages tags within mp3 files - it can also create file names from tags, tags from file names, embed cover art thumbnails ....windows has no tool for that. MP3tag is free with optional donations, like calibre. I use it to have consistent file names , so it does not matter whether I buy mp3 from amazon, rip for CD... I can name them as I choose: (track# - title - artist - album.flac or.mp3 is my preference)

[laji]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

It also gets saved in the EPUB metadata, but this is harmless info, saved in the calibre namespace and can be ignored.

In a totally purist sense, it could be regarded as wasteful and unclean to have them there but the Modify EPUB plugin...

Sorry, I can not agree with you. The principle of strictly dividing datas and temp values (primary, real; and secondary, derived and technical only values, needed only for managing DB) is not my idea, and not accidentaly is so strict, so principle. Cosmetic clearing of a principially erronously structured behavior is not a way to happiness. First, it is not nice, not exact, not real-clear solution, only forced - it is the barrier in the way of developing. Second, if to mix temp values into DB, DB will grew up with extrem speed - without real needs. As I will develop the DB shower interface, so will more and more impracticable the DB's size. By the way: THIS was the cause, why I leaved that second, hierarchical-able book-organizer, that I wrote earlier. The size of the DB was 10× more, then real data's of books. Calibre is going on this, principially erronous way, too.

Originally Posted by theducks

laji

You seem to be dwelling on what you perceive Calibre can't do for you, rather that what it CAN do.

I am very glad for those much abilities, what Calibre themselve plus plugins can do: converts, quick searches, hierarchical tags, saving searches, and so on, and so on. Thank you for all of them to Calibre's and the plugins' developers.
But: the core function of a DB managing application is: to manage DB, in correct way.

Originally Posted by theducks

Calibre runs on 3 OS
Your favorite MP3Tag runs on one.
One target is a lot simpler than three to hit.

If Calibre can not solve a task, to well manage and organize a DB, on 1 operating system, why do you count to multiply this error on +2 operating systems, as benefit? I'll be try first to do my job well on 1 OS.

I beg pardon all of you: have no more time for discussion. Now I am sure more, then earlier: Calibre is going on a way, that I count as faulty. I tried to explaine all of you my opinion; do not know, how effectively did it.

Thank you all for any help, especially eschwartz.
Have a good luck!

[laji]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=24

Originally Posted by eschwartz

It works when there is an OPF as well...

Sorry, it does not work, too. I tried:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="uuid_id" version="2.0">
    <metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
        <dc:contributor opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="bkp">calibre (2.37.1) [http://calibre-ebook.com]</dc:contributor>
    </metadata>
    <guide>
        <reference href="cover.jpg" title="Borító" type="cover"/>
    </guide>
</package>

...and tried

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="uuid_id" version="2.0">
    <guide>
        <reference href="cover.jpg" title="Borító" type="cover"/>
    </guide>
</package>

The folder were named, as my import naming preferences (author - title). In the folder were an author-title named pdf, a cover.jpg, and the above metadata.opf. Calibre imported the PDF into the existing entry (correctly), but did not import cover. I tried it without PDF (JPG + OPF only): Calibre imported the OPF, as a new book file (like EPUB or any else), with title "metadata", and ignored the cover.