[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Demanih]

I checked that if you save the book in "epub", the formatting is preserved, but if you save it in "txt" (or then convert it to txt in calibre), the formatting is lost and everything becomes one line (((
Is there any way to fix this?

Thank you.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Okay, ficbook is a bit weird--instead of using HTML tags to format story text, they use newline whitespace which requires unusual CSS to show.

[ownedbycats]

Quick question: In the AO3 section of personal.ini, I add_to_exclude_metadata some entries (e.g. I exclude "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" as it's often double-tagged next to The Original Series).

In the case I want to have them for specific stories, is there a way to undo this in a storyUrl section? (Include would mean excluding all the other entries.)

[JimmXinu]

Multi-reply

Originally Posted by Demanih

I checked that if you save the book in "epub", the formatting is preserved, but if you save it in "txt" (or then convert it to txt in calibre), the formatting is lost and everything becomes one line (((
Is there any way to fix this?

Ah. I assume everyone downloads to epub.

There isn't a fix for this in the current code. This is really ficbook being very weird.

I confirm that neither FFF's text output nor Calibre's Convert to TXT apply the unusual CSS ficbook uses during the txt output. I had hoped changing the <div> tag to a <pre> tag would work with Calibre's Convert, but it doesn't.

I might be able to add an option specifically in adapter_ficbooknet to change whitespace to tags. You'll likely lose the paragraph indents, though.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Quick question: In the AO3 section of personal.ini, I add_to_exclude_metadata. In the case I want to have them for specific stories, is there a way to undo this in a storyUrl section? (Include would mean excluding all the other entries.)

No. That's a known limitation of add_to_X.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-01-27
- adapter_storiesonlinenet: Site changed, get series number from series page now.
- adapter_ficbooknet: Add replace_text_formatting option to replace CSS paragraphing with tags, for txt output.

@Demanih - New replace_text_formatting option is on by default for ficbook using FFF's txt output. You will need to add it to your personal.ini under [ficbook.net] if you want to output epubs and then use Calibre Convert.