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Old 09-08-2008, 05:52 PM   #166
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Just one more thing. I love the auto generating of author sort field. But I noticed that the format is like this:

Anna Trokes -> Trokes; Anna

Is that ";" there a typo? Or was it intentoinal? I haven't seen anyone using that syntax before. Usually it's ",". It's not a big deal but if it's not a typo I would love to be able to configure that if in Configuration window or somewhere.
Calibre uses the , to denote multiple authors and the ; to denote lastname; first name. To me, that's the logical thing to do.
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:46 PM   #167
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I've uploaded a new build of b10 for OS X that should fix the crashes.

@pilotbob: That particular RTF file uses features that are not supported by rtf2xml (the susbsytem that calibre uses to convert RTF files)
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Old 09-08-2008, 07:48 PM   #168
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I've uploaded a new build of b10 for OS X that should fix the crashes.

@pilotbob: That particular RTF file uses features that are not supported by rtf2xml (the susbsytem that calibre uses to convert RTF files)
Ah... I figured as much. It was just a fairly large document I had to test. I figured it would work on a simple document.

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Old 09-09-2008, 12:06 AM   #169
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b10 wont start

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An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script

ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lxml/etree.so, 2): Symbol not found: _libiconv_close
  Referenced from: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lxml/etree.so
  Expected in: dynamic lookup
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Old 09-09-2008, 01:56 AM   #170
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is that the new b10 and on what version of OSX is this?
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Old 09-09-2008, 05:28 AM   #171
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Calibre uses the , to denote multiple authors and the ; to denote lastname; first name. To me, that's the logical thing to do.
If you see how , and ; is used normally the logical thing would be vice versa since , binds stronger then ; :last1, first1; last2, first2.
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Old 09-09-2008, 05:43 AM   #172
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If you see how , and ; is used normally the logical thing would be vice versa since , binds stronger then ; :last1, first1; last2, first2.
But , is used to denote many items.
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Old 09-09-2008, 05:49 AM   #173
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But , is used to denote many items.
; is also used to seperate many items.

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http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/semicolon.html

it is described how ; is used as a supercomma and the example they give is:
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Old 09-09-2008, 05:52 AM   #174
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If you check the Metadata in MobiPocket Creater it suggests Last Name comma first name and separate by semicolons if more than one author.

So I guess that would be "standard"?
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Old 09-09-2008, 06:19 AM   #175
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New B10 crashes on startup. Mac OS X 10.5.4
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Old 09-09-2008, 08:58 AM   #176
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empty directories

Ok,

Found te problem. The empty directories don't remain when you change metadata. They remain when you delete a book from the library.

As far as the "," and ";" are concerned. AbeBooks for example, uses this format:

Kernighan, Brian W.; Ritchie, Dennis M.

While amazon uses this:

by Brian W. Kernighan (Author), Dennis M. Ritchie (Author)

The local online book stores for example use this format:
J. Farrow, J. Clark

So I guess there's no real standard way to write this. If it's not too hard, I would really appreciate if we could configure which character splits the name and surname and which character splits authors.

One more thing. When it comes to that button for automatic author sort generating. Would it be hard to include support for multiple authors also? That's probably the lowest priority thing since most books only have one author but still, it would be nice.
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Old 09-09-2008, 10:43 AM   #177
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I have two minor bugs to report, both concern the main search grid.

1) When calibre first starts it always sorts by the Date column.

2) When I edit metadata via the grid and press ENTER to finish the edit. The data in the grid is sorted by the column I edited if the column is Title or Authors. This does not happen for Publisher.

I am running 0.4.84b10 version installed over the 0.4.84b2 on Windows XP SP3 in a VM
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Old 09-09-2008, 12:05 PM   #178
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New B10 crashes on startup. Mac OS X 10.5.4
Can you post a crash report from the Console with the new b10
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Old 09-09-2008, 12:13 PM   #179
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Ok,

Found te problem. The empty directories don't remain when you change metadata. They remain when you delete a book from the library.

As far as the "," and ";" are concerned. AbeBooks for example, uses this format:

Kernighan, Brian W.; Ritchie, Dennis M.

While amazon uses this:

by Brian W. Kernighan (Author), Dennis M. Ritchie (Author)

The local online book stores for example use this format:
J. Farrow, J. Clark

So I guess there's no real standard way to write this. If it's not too hard, I would really appreciate if we could configure which character splits the name and surname and which character splits authors.

One more thing. When it comes to that button for automatic author sort generating. Would it be hard to include support for multiple authors also? That's probably the lowest priority thing since most books only have one author but still, it would be nice.
On deleting a book, the book folder is deleted, but the folder for the author is not. I've changed things so that if the folder for the author is empty, it is also deleted.

Changing the separation character is a bit of a job, as its used in a lot of places. I suggest you open a ticket for it and I will do it at some point. Right now I'm focussed on closing any remaining bugs.

Again open a ticket for multiple author support.
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Old 09-09-2008, 12:28 PM   #180
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I have two minor bugs to report, both concern the main search grid.

1) When calibre first starts it always sorts by the Date column.

2) When I edit metadata via the grid and press ENTER to finish the edit. The data in the grid is sorted by the column I edited if the column is Title or Authors. This does not happen for Publisher.

I am running 0.4.84b10 version installed over the 0.4.84b2 on Windows XP SP3 in a VM
1) Is intentional. Otherwise when people add books they dont get added to the top of the list and I get bug reports about "add books" not working

2) This is also intentional, because sorting by Publisher is unusual, so the default is to not do it.
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