Adding content to Cooler/Bookeen/Netronix etc

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by hal9000

Oh. That's fine. Then the only thing needed would be that calibre were smart enough to not only remove leading spaces, but leading dash/hyphens too.

This has been discussed before. It's ceratainly possible, but not with the current design for the save template, which uses Python string templates and available string formatting operations. It would need a conditional inside the string template.

This little bugaboo has been around for a while. Feel free to add it as a request in the bug tracker (Search first, it may already be there and on the ToDo list). The problem is that it's a minor annoyance and may be too much work for too little reward. Personally, I just skip the hyphen, use spaces and put the series_index at the front (which is where I want it for sorting anyway.)

[kovidgoyal]

calibre does strip leading spaces from path components. So use spaces instead of hyphens

[hal9000]

Thanks Kovid and Starson17, I'll use spaces if there's no other way. It's just that hyphens result more clear as separators, visually I mean.

Regards.

[hal9000]

Originally Posted by hal9000

That's what I thought, but then if the book has no series you get an ugly " - " before the title. Is there a way to do this so the "-" only appears if a series exists? If no, could it be added to calibre? I mean a way to condition a literal string to the existence of a field. Or even have two different name templates for books with or without series.

Glad to see that this feature of conditional text has been added to calibre. Thanks Kovid.