This is a short week for the week in review because I’m now doing my week from Friday to Thursday. Last week I ended my week on Monday so this review only has a few days worth of work. TXTZ I’ve added an import plugin that runs over TXT content when it is added to the library. What happens is the TXT file is scanned looking for Markdown (inline or reference) and Textile image references....
I’ve been putting up my week in reviews on based on a week starting on Monday for some time now. I’ve been thinking about this and it doesn’t really make much sense. Calibre has a release pretty much every Friday now. So starting next week I’m going to change my week in review to be Friday though Thursday. This way features I talk about in my review will be in the just released version....
Once again this is a big week with a lot of little changes. The majority of which were related to TXT input. Format Specifications I was thinking about the fact that for all of the formats I support I use the format specification to know how the reading and writing should happen and how they aren’t part of calibre proper. I have a set of documents that outline what is known about each format I handle....
TXT input got some more work. It now supports the Textile markup language. This can be used in place of Markdown. Textile is also supported by the new auto-detection in TXT input. FB2 output had some more bug fixes. The cover image is now put inside of the coverpage element in the metadata header. This is per the FB2 spec. However, the calibre ebook-viewer does not currently display the cover image that is part of the metadata header....
This week saw massive improvements to TXT input. I started the week with a slew of changes and as soon as I had implemented the first of them Lee Dolsen contacted me. We’ve worked together before improving PDF input. Since then he’s done a lot of work with preprocessing of PDF and other not so clean input. TXT input now auto detects the character encoding of the file. It isn’t 100% accurate but should work for the majority of cases....