[GUI Plugin] Count Pages

[jbacelar]

Originally Posted by davidfor

But, getting a non-standard formats for the locale other than a comma, seems to be hard.

I use it regularly, and it has always worked perfectly for me.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by jbacelar

I use it regularly, and it has always worked perfectly for me.

If you mean using "{:n}" works, then that is what I would expect. But, what I meant is that if you don't want to use the locale default, you can use a comma easily, but, getting any other character is hard. Or at least I couldn't work out how to do it without writing extra code.

But, if you have a simple way to do this, then I would be interested in seeing it.

[jbacelar]

Originally Posted by davidfor

But, what I meant is that if you don't want to use the locale default, you can use a comma easily, but, getting any other character is hard.

OK, if we do not want to use 'n', it is necessary to create a custom column based on the custom column associated with the Count pages plugin (this should have the format {:,}).
In the new column the template will be:

{#pages:re(\,,.)}

In this example the new character is a dot, but we can put the character we want.
Honestly I do not see that this is hard or complicated.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by jbacelar

OK, if we do not want to use 'n', it is necessary to create a custom column based on the custom column associated with the Count pages plugin (this should have the format {:,}).
In the new column the template will be:

{#pages:re(\,,.)}

In this example the new character is a dot, but we can put the character we want.
Honestly I do not see that this is hard or complicated.

No, that is not hard at all. But, I said, "without writing extra code". And I had previously stated I couldn't see how to do it without an extra column. That was what I was really hoping to avoid as it feels like overkill. It also means that for every column you don't want the standard formatting, you need a second column with this template. And that's ugly and I was hoping to avoid.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by davidfor

No, that is not hard at all. But, I said, "without writing extra code". And I had previously stated I couldn't see how to do it without an extra column. That was what I was really hoping to avoid as it feels like overkill. It also means that for every column you don't want the standard formatting, you need a second column with this template. And that's ugly and I was hoping to avoid.

Would it be possible to write a template function (see Preferences->Advanced->Template functions) that formats numbers with commas and a period in the anglo-normal way, and does the regex to change the comma's into space and the period (if any) into a comma.

Then use that template in integer and float column definitions.

BR

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Would it be possible to write a template function (see Preferences->Advanced->Template functions) that formats numbers with commas and a period in the anglo-normal way, and does the regex to change the comma's into space and the period (if any) into a comma.

Then use that template in integer and float column definitions.

I don't know. The formatting appears to just be calling a Python format function. I don't know if that can be extended in a way that it can be used here.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Would it be possible to write a template function (see Preferences->Advanced->Template functions) that formats numbers with commas and a period in the anglo-normal way, and does the regex to change the comma's into space and the period (if any) into a comma.

Then use that template in integer and float column definitions.

BR

Originally Posted by davidfor

I don't know. The formatting appears to just be calling a Python format function. I don't know if that can be extended in a way that it can be used here.

Davidfor is correct, the format string isn't a template. It is instead the part of a template that affects how the value is formatted.

That could be changed (process the format as a template). That would require some syntax to tell calibre that the string is a full template instead of a simple format string, perhaps something like a leading colon. It also would be a bit slower, but probably not significantly.

The real question: is the worth doing? Would more than one person use it?

[Sarmat]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

This is what I have:

{:,}

thanks
now it's much better

[Sarmat]

is it possible to add one more function?
to calculate hours which are needed to read a book based on inserted value of average reading speed

seeing hours instead of pages is much more useful

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Sarmat

is it possible to add one more function?
to calculate hours which are needed to read a book based on inserted value of average reading speed

seeing hours instead of pages is much more useful

As all you want is something like "pages / pages-per-hour", or "words / words-per-hour", you can create another column to display this. It has been discussed before with some examples of how to do it. A search through the thread should find it.

[red_dragon]

Sarmat,

I am using the code from Post #1110. Two posts earlier you will find a description how to add a custom column.

Different colors based on book length are also handy. You you can adjust them in Preferences -> "Look & Feel", "Column Coloring".

[Sarmat]

red_dragon,

thank you, nice

[mrpops]

Just thought i'd post in this thread because i've spent the last hour trying to figure out why it wouldn't work, yet others had success doing the seemingly exact same thing.

If you are exporting / converting to .kfx theres a setting in the exporter that you need to change.

Click on preferences > output options > KFX output > 3rd option 'create approximate page numbers' and change the column to #pages or whatever you put.

You need to enable this column to match the #pages column like is mentioned at the start, because .kfx exports need to, for whatever reason. So simply just click that and put #pages for the column its from and everything will work like it should.

Hopefully this saves someone else an hour or so.

Thank you to everybody who has contributed, this looks so much cleaner than location.