Generate Article Description?

kindlefont · 01-30-2011, 05:14 PM

Hello everyone,

I like 'e-papers' generated by calibre. However, as some of you may already know, kindle 3 has some problems with Chinese font support. No problem with article description or content, but titles become unrecognizable characters. This problem cannot be solved by change locale or font hack.

I wonder there might be a easy way around since Amazon is unlikely going to fix that problem. I want to insert title text into the beginning of description part so that people can read title from article description. Can anyone help me with that? Thanks.

P.S.
I tried my self and looked into some recipes. It turns out calibre uses the function 'parse_feeds' to parse a XML feed. However I don't have any document about description of object 'Feed'. I guess, maybe I can just modify some attribute to insert an article title into description section. Am I right?

kovidgoyal · 01-30-2011, 07:07 PM

Use the populate_article_metadata function

01-30-2011, 05:14 PM	#1
kindlefont Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle3 wifi	Generate Article Description? Hello everyone, I like 'e-papers' generated by calibre. However, as some of you may already know, kindle 3 has some problems with Chinese font support. No problem with article description or content, but titles become unrecognizable characters. This problem cannot be solved by change locale or font hack. I wonder there might be a easy way around since Amazon is unlikely going to fix that problem. I want to insert title text into the beginning of description part so that people can read title from article description. Can anyone help me with that? Thanks. P.S. I tried my self and looked into some recipes. It turns out calibre uses the function 'parse_feeds' to parse a XML feed. However I don't have any document about description of object 'Feed'. I guess, maybe I can just modify some attribute to insert an article title into description section. Am I right?

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01-30-2011, 07:07 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use the populate_article_metadata function

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