Edit Metadata Comments remove formatting doesn't save

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

look at post 6

That's the sample styling in Look and Feel->Book details. The HTML is in PL/1 comments

BR

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

There are a couple of plugins that may help, Comments Cleaner and Clean Comments. That's as much as I know about them.

I recomand to look at it too. To give you more information:

Comments Cleaner allow to remove the formating of comment with a various options to get a great granularity in you result. The keys features is that it can also apply some formating to better standardize comments and it save the result into Calibre format (as HTML).

Clean Comments is a more radical option because it transform HTML comment into raw txt. It efficase and simple, but the main issue is that this is not how Calibre saves comments. So if you ever modify a comment afterwards, it will be converted back to HTML and you will need have to perform the plugin again.

[un_pogaz]

Originally Posted by toomuchreading

Job Spy still removes the formatting like the remove formatting button used to do, but it takes a while to find that menu item. I guess I'm being a little picky, but I'd like the remove formatting button to work like it used to do, so I don't have to do it manually or find the job spy button.

I didn't even know that Job Spy had remove formatting action. And that exacly why in don't like Job Spy: Too many thing in one place while many of them could easily be included in a standalone plugin.

[toomuchreading]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I didn't even know there was Remove format button
BR

I'm sorry I didn't specify this sooner, as I should have. My only excuse is old age
In the comments box of the edit metadata screen are the two buttons that I used most often, the select all and remove formatting button, both circled in red on the attachment. The remove formatting is the one that has changed behavior and not working as it used to.
The clean comments plugins can't be used inside the edit metadata screen as far as I know. I do use them when I'm on the main book list.
When I'm checking a batch of books that I've just added I don't like going in and out of edit metadata, for workflow sake. Just clicking on the select all, then remove formatting was simple and fast. Then onto the next book to verify and fix if necessary.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

That's the sample styling in Look and Feel->Book details. The HTML is in PL/1 comments

BR

I'm looking (HTML source tab) at a real books comments in my Calibre. There is a double <br />

murder needs to be solved. <br><br>When Beatrice

EXCEPT they are not self closed, but render in normal view as 1 blank line between the text
BTW I did a select all: Clean in Normal view and it did not get these