[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver

[chaley]

You can also use

program: 
	$#mybool == 'yes'

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by chaley

The first parameter must be the column name, not the column value. Your example should be

check_yes_no('#kepub', 0, 0, 1)

Oops I've made that mistake a few times before.

[davidfor]

I assume this has been about sending books as kepubs using the template. My current template is:

program:
as_kepub = '';
if (current_library_name()=='Incoming' || in_list($tags, ',', '\[as_kepub\]',  'as_kepub', '')) then
    as_kepub = 'as_kepub'
fi

Which of course means everything in one of my libraries plus anything else with the tag "[as_kepup]". And that looks clumsy.

What I realised when I saw the release is that I should have added the global variables that I added for the collections template. That would let you use the device serial number to only send to a particular device.

And as I don't remember if I mentioned it anywhere outside the code, the collections template has the following global variables:

• 'serial_number': The serial number of the connected device
• 'firmware_version': Firmware version as a tuple. e.g. (4, 33, 12345)
• 'display_firmware_version': Firmware version as a string. e.g. 4.33.12345
• 'dbversion': Database version. For the current firmware is should be 170.

I think only the first one is particularly useful, but, the others are things that I could see that the driver knows about the connected device and might make sense.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by chaley

You can also use

program: 
	$#mybool == 'yes'

I used this code and it works perfectly. Thanks.

[JSWolf]

I was having a look at the code of the KePub that I am reading. I was wonder what the reasoning is for the multiple koboSpan spans in some paragraphs? Are they needed or would KePub work with just one koboSpan per paragraph?

I did a quick S/R and removed all of the koboSpan except for those that followed <p>. So far everything seems to work.

[ownedbycats]

Did you test with one book, or multiple ones?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Did you test with one book, or multiple ones?

One book for now. I'll do the same for the other KePub when I finish this one. Both are from the same series.

[ownedbycats]

Is this anything similar to what you're seeing? It's from an eBook downloaded with FanFicFare and then sent to my Kobo with KTE.

[ownedbycats]

Judging from the id of the spans, I'd expect that it was used internally for reading position/annotation purposes?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is this anything similar to what you're seeing? It's from an eBook downloaded with FanFicFare and then sent to my Kobo with KTE.

Yes, that is what I am seeing with multiple spans in some paragraphs. I'm wondering why more then one span per paragraph is needed.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Yes, that is what I am seeing with multiple spans in some paragraphs. I'm wondering why more then one span per paragraph is needed.

Based on experiments (several years ago), rather than inside knowledge, I had a very bad visual result when I allowed any kobospan to contain other inline tags, e.g. <i>, <span>, ... etc. In other words, a kobospan should contain only text. You need to start a new kobospan for the text inside <i>...</i> or <span...>...</span> or following a <br/> or a link <a...></a>.

For any paragraph which contains only plain text, a single kobospan wrapped around the whole of the text should be fine.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Based on experiments (several years ago), rather than inside knowledge, I had a very bad visual result when I allowed any kobospan to contain other inline tags, e.g. <i>, <span>, ... etc. In other words, a kobospan should contain only text. You need to start a new kobospan for the text inside <i>...</i> or <span...>...</span> or following a <br/> or a link <a...>...</a>.

For any paragraph which contains only plain text, a single kobospan wrapped around the whole of the text should be fine.

It would be nice then for the KTE extended driver to do it that way for less spans.

[ownedbycats]

Is it causing issues? If not, I dont see why it matters.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is it causing issues? If not, I dont see why it matters.

On really long eBooks, it would make the code less and thus the size and maybe it wouldn't time out like it can. Also, I do like cleaner code when possible.

[jcotton42]

I just updated to the new version of Calibre released today, 5.44, and when it restarted it seems that this plugin had been uninstalled? I was able to reinstall and use it with no issue, but I'm wondering if this happened to anyone else.