Change Case of ALL tags?

Uncle Robin · 04-01-2021, 04:17 PM

I spent Wednesday morning tidying up my tag library, and have slashed it from 500+ to 87 - much more to my liking. However KOReader's listing of Calibre tags is case-sensitive, which affects its sorting, obviously. Is there a way to change all tags to title case, so that will be consistently sorted by KOReader?

theducks · 04-01-2021, 06:28 PM

Doing it from Manage Tags is a pain because it is one at a time.
right click on the tag box in the MDE: change case.
That affects all Tags in the box

Make a dummy book with a bunch of problem tags, then do the case thingy

Uncle Robin · 04-01-2021, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Doing it from Manage Tags is a pain because it is one at a time.
right click on the tag box in the MDE: change case.
That affects all Tags in the box

Thanks for the tip, I'll kep it in mind for future reference. I discovered after posting that there were only 4 lower case tags, so I just used the Tag editor and selected the "rename" option for each

shalym · 04-13-2021, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Doing it from Manage Tags is a pain because it is one at a time.
right click on the tag box in the MDE: change case.
That affects all Tags in the box

Make a dummy book with a bunch of problem tags, then do the case thingy

Will that work in the bulk metadata editor? Or does it have to be done for each book, one by one?

Shari

chaley · 04-13-2021, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shalym

Will that work in the bulk metadata editor? Or does it have to be done for each book, one by one?

Shari

Yes, in Search and replace, regular expression mode.

Code:

Search field: tags
Search for: ^(.+)$         (this matches the entire tag)
Replace with: \1           (this replaces the tag with itself)
Apply function after replace: (choose the one you want.)

shalym · 04-13-2021, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaley

Yes, in Search and replace, regular expression mode.

Code:

Search field: tags
Search for: ^(.+)$         (this matches the entire tag)
Replace with: \1           (this replaces the tag with itself)
Apply function after replace: (choose the one you want.)

Thank you!! That works wonderfully!

Shari

04-01-2021, 04:17 PM	#1
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,417 Karma: 48736498 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra H2O	Change Case of ALL tags? I spent Wednesday morning tidying up my tag library, and have slashed it from 500+ to 87 - much more to my liking. However KOReader's listing of Calibre tags is case-sensitive, which affects its sorting, obviously. Is there a way to change all tags to title case, so that will be consistently sorted by KOReader?

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,800 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Doing it from Manage Tags is a pain because it is one at a time. right click on the tag box in the MDE: change case. That affects all Tags in the box Make a dummy book with a bunch of problem tags, then do the case thingy

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