Book details->Copy->All book details

[BetterRed]

Now that I know why it's happening, I can live with it while you're looking into it. I only reach for the Copy->All book details feature occasionally - my libraries have sub 10 sec startup times, so the occasionally retard isn't much of a hardship.

I'll come back if I spot any other differences between Wide and Narrow.

BR

[chaley]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

99% sure my problem is caused by having the book details panel UNDER the book list, if I put it to the left of the book list I get a plain text BD with newlines when I right click BD and select Copy->All book details.

Perhaps someone can confirm by changing Prefs->L&F>General->User interface layout to Narrow and try coffee and pasting Book details.

BR

Confirmed.

[chaley]

I can also confirm that the latest push to book_details.py doesn't fix it.

[chaley]

@kovid: the problem is the table embedded in a table in narrow view. If I skip the outermost <td> when simplifying the HTML then it sort-of works. By 'sort-of' I mean that the output has line breaks etc but isn't the same as one gets in wide view. Another problem: passing to do_copy() whether it is narrow or wide -- this seems to require a signature change. Better would be to encode this into the HTML, perhaps as an identifier in the extra <table>.

I don't follow the HTML manipulations you are doing and am not skilled with etree etc, so I think me trying to fix it correctly will just waste your time.

[BetterRed]

@kovid, @chaley - on reflection, what I'd prefer is a newline separated 'dump' of all column header names and values in header name order irrespective of how the embedded or free-standing Book Details panels are configured.

Maybe via a "Copy book metadata" item in the Book details menu.

And… I don't have to change the User interface layout to get a side panel BD, I can just press K or I and copy from the pop-up BD. Why didn't I try that in the first instance

BR

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Perhaps someone can confirm by changing Prefs->L&F>General->User interface layout to Narrow and try coffee and pasting Book details.

I set the layout to narrow and restarted calibre. The result was much what you were seeing. Wide in the first spoiler, narrow in the second spoiler. Was it okay if I had tea instead of coffee?

Spoiler:

Authors: David Weber
Series: VII of Honor Harrington - Worlds of Honor
Formats: EPUB
Folder: Book files
Finished: Finished
Word Count: 111,166
Pages: 279
### Comments:
The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber’s Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine—Honor Harrington.
New Honorverse tales by Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope, Jane Lindskold, Jan Kotouč, and Joelle Presby. Plus “First Victory,” an all-new novella by David Weber!
At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Spoiler:

Authors: David Weber Series: VII of Honor Harrington - Worlds of Honor Formats: EPUB Folder: Book files Finished: Finished Word Count: 111,166 Pages: 279
### Comments:
The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber’s Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine—Honor Harrington.
New Honorverse tales by Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope, Jane Lindskold, Jan Kotouč, and Joelle Presby. Plus “First Victory,” an all-new novella by David Weber!
At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...f416aa9bb89c9b

[DNSB]

Thank you!

[BetterRed]

Currently multi-value columns (e.g. Authors, Tags, Formats etc) on Copy->All book details, are concatenated with no separators - i.e. Tags displayed as "Banking, Economic History, Economics, Political Science" is copied as "BankingEconomic HistoryEconomicsPolitical Science".

The Copy->All book details term is potentially misleading- it only copies those columns that are displayed in the book details panel. So, I still think there's a need for something that provides a 'dump' of all metadata for a book - perhaps as Tab separated "Header, Value" pairs that can be read into something like CSVFileView, Excel, Calc etc.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

That was only if you had them displayed on separate lines and is now fixed. There is already a copy metadata action in the edit metadata menu if you want to copy all metadata. This one is designed to copy the text from the book details panel only. And if you want to export data in CSV/XML etc use the create catalog tool.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That was only if you had them displayed on separate lines and is now fixed. There is already a copy metadata action in the edit metadata menu if you want to copy all metadata. This one is designed to copy the text from the book details panel only. And if you want to export data in CSV/XML etc use the create catalog tool.

That's the one I've been looking for. I use it often enough, but never looked to see what shape its output used, I assumed it was a machine readable format, i.e. JSON, XML, whatever.



BR