Polish books extension: Search & Replace

DrChiper · 06-23-2014, 11:50 AM

Polish books contains a number of actions, which actions can also be found in Conversions, and are selectable (on/off) to perform some minimum touching-up on a book.

One of the function I am missing (and thus would like to have

) is the Search & Replace option exactly as is present in "Preferences - Conversion - Common Options". By including it in "Polish books" you can conveniently touch-up some limited text in selected books at once. For instance, I always forget to rename <title></title> and to use then a "conversion" is overkill, while opening files one by one to edit them is an annoyance.

Is this some bright idea, or am I thinking nonsense?

nqk · 07-24-2014, 11:29 AM

I'm with you.

kovidgoyal · 07-24-2014, 12:11 PM

Polish is designed to work with simple binary on/off options. Options that require elaborate config like S&R are not appropriate for it. But there is nothing stopping someone making a plugin to do S&R on ebook contents in bulk, using the same infrastructure as polish uses.

Dopedangel · 08-04-2014, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Polish is designed to work with simple binary on/off options. Options that require elaborate config like S&R are not appropriate for it. But there is nothing stopping someone making a plugin to do S&R on ebook contents in bulk, using the same infrastructure as polish uses.

How about the filterstyle information do you think that would be suitable option for this plugin.

kovidgoyal · 08-04-2014, 03:43 AM

No, again one has to specify which rules need to be filtered.

06-23-2014, 11:50 AM	#1
DrChiper Bookish Posts: 1,049 Karma: 2006208 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: PC, t1, t2, t3, Clara BW, Clara HD, Libra 2, Libra Color, Nxtpaper 11	Polish books extension: Search & Replace Polish books contains a number of actions, which actions can also be found in Conversions, and are selectable (on/off) to perform some minimum touching-up on a book. One of the function I am missing (and thus would like to have ) is the Search & Replace option exactly as is present in "Preferences - Conversion - Common Options". By including it in "Polish books" you can conveniently touch-up some limited text in selected books at once. For instance, I always forget to rename <title></title> and to use then a "conversion" is overkill, while opening files one by one to edit them is an annoyance. Is this some bright idea, or am I thinking nonsense?

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07-24-2014, 11:29 AM	#2
nqk Fanatic Posts: 568 Karma: 32228 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Onyx Boox Leaf	I'm with you.

07-24-2014, 12:11 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Polish is designed to work with simple binary on/off options. Options that require elaborate config like S&R are not appropriate for it. But there is nothing stopping someone making a plugin to do S&R on ebook contents in bulk, using the same infrastructure as polish uses.

08-04-2014, 03:43 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No, again one has to specify which rules need to be filtered.