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iPod Export Sort by Letter

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:43 pm
by Beiju
My request is that in the iPod export, as in the HTML export, there is an option to separate the pages (or in this case, the different notes) by number of entries, alphabetically by word, or alphabetically by letter (Currently it will only do alphabetically by letter). This is in Bookpedia, by the way. I hope that this request is simple enough to happen: I tried it by myself using the custom export templates, but couldn't find a way to differenciate using the PageSplit content "Sortname".
Thanks, and I hope to see this in the next update.

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:00 pm
by Conor
Very close, the "N" needs to be capitalized:

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<meta name="PageSplit" content="SortName" />
If you have trouble take a look at the "Sorted..." templates those are grouped by name.

P.S. Beiju an interesting name I like it, makes me think of a crocodile dog (bayou). What breed is Beiju?

Fixed it myself

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:42 pm
by Beiju
I did find an answer- just use a different template with Alphabetical in the name, or change the <meta name="PageSplit" content="SortName" /> to <meta name="PageSplit" content="SortLetter" /> in the template.

Beiju is a Portuguese Water Dog with an improper coat, which means that instead of looking a bit like a poodle he looks like a black lab to most people and a flat-coated retriever to the vet. He is also thirty pounds and four inches larger than he is supposed to be, and he is not overweight. He doesn't like to swim (but does enjoy wading), but he does have the doginality of a porty, and we love him.

One other question- not so important, but one i'd like to have answered. I am using one of Dan Friml's templates- the metal box one, and I'd like to add the Series field to it, when the yellow circle-with-a-dot is pushed. I've looked all around the template in Text Edit, because I don't have a real HTML editor, and I can't find the place where the Subjects field is, which is where I want it to be under. Will this work at all? Do I just need a real HTML editor?

No, never mind, I did have a real HTML editor, and that's what I needed. (If anyone out there has Dashcode for Mac, that will edit HTML, I think.) Now i'm happy, except for one thing- probably really stupid, but in HTML, how do I skip a line? Thanks!

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:55 am
by Conor
I am glad you got things working. Beiju is a good looking dog, might be one of a kind due to all the unique attributes.

To skip a line use:

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<br />
The thing with TextEdit is that it normally renders HTML files. When using TextEdit use the open command and uncheck the rich text box to edit the source directly.

Dashcode comes on the Leopard DVD, but you have to install the developer tools.