Customizable character substitution about zotfile HOT 6 CLOSED

It sounds like an interesting feature but I simply don't have time to work on any additional features for now. I am happy to integrate contributions from other people, which is quite some work itself. So if you send a pull request, I am happy to make sure that gets implemented. My idea would be to use a JSON string for custom substitution. Here is an example with three substitutions (!@#$%{} gets replaced by _, ä by ae etc):

{
    '!@#$%{}': '_',
    'ä':'ae',
    'ü':'ue'
}

It's easy to loop through these JSON objects to do all the defined substitutions. In FF, they can be saved as a string preference like this "{'!@#$%{}': '_', 'ä':'ae', 'ü':'ue'}" and there is a simple command, which transfers the string to a js object.

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Okay, cool, I will try that out when I get a chance. That's nicer than what I had been thinking (only one option for the substitution rather than a set of rules).

By the way, how do you feel about the substitution working on subfolders as well as file names? This would mean either putting it in replaceWildcard() or putting it into both getLocation() and getFilename(). I had wanted remove periods and replace blanks to work on subfolders, but if this custom substitution worked on subfolders, I could just replicate their behavior with it and they could be left alone.

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I think that would be more consistent...

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Hello willsALMANJ,

all of your requests are possible using my proposed 'wildcard modifiers' (see pull request). If they are adopted, I'd have to code in an escaping mechanism (easy to do), as the curly braces you want to replace are currently used to delimit argument groups. Apart from this, everything else is implemented.

Best wishes,

Simon

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wills, I saw that your nice pull request about relative paths to linked attachments is going to make it in Zotero 3.1. I opened a zotfile ticket about that #78. Can you comment on how zotfile can best support the new feature in 3.1? Does anything break?

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I am closing this because it should be possible with herrsimon's pull request...

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