Tag Order?

[Amelie L.]

Hello, 

this is a bit a stupid question, but I've been wondering: 

Apparently, the tags that get downloaded, like from AO3, are written in alphabetical order. But then, I've noticed that some fanfics in AO3 have strange tags, and it makes more sense to have them in the order that is displayed on AO3 instead of alphabetical. 

Take, for example, this story's tags: http://archiveofourown.org/works/887241

So, how do I get rid of the alphabetical order in fanficfare? 

[Jim Miller]

On 10/11/2015 4:26 AM, Amelie L. wrote:
> Apparently, the tags that get downloaded, like from AO3, are written in
> alphabetical order. But then, I've noticed that some fanfics in AO3 have
> strange tags, and it makes more sense to have them in the order that is
> displayed on AO3 instead of alphabetical.
>
> Take, for example, this story's
> tags: http://archiveofourown.org/works/887241
>
> So, how do I get rid of the alphabetical order in fanficfare?

keep_in_order_<entry> in general:

>> ## keep_in_order_<entry> options: FanFicFare sorts list entries by default
>> ## (except for author/authorUrl/authorId). But if you want to use an
>> ## extra entry derived from author, it ends up sorted. For example, if
>> ## you added calibre_author: keep_in_order_calibre_author:true
>> #keep_in_order_author:true

AO3 has several different types of 'tags' and names them somewhat
differently than most sites, so there are several metadata entries . In
personal.ini, under [archiveofourown.org] you can add:

keep_in_order_category:true
keep_in_order_genre:true
keep_in_order_fandoms:true
keep_in_order_freeformtags:true
keep_in_order_ao3categories:true

That will affect those metadata entries on the Title Page and in Calibre
custom columns. It won't effect ordering of dc:subject tags in epub
files (those are semi-random) or Calibre's Tags field which is always
alphabetically sorted by Calibre.

If it's needed, I could change the FanFicFare to keep epub dc:subject
tags in order, but I'm not going to bother unless that's something
somebody needs.

Jim

[Amelie L.]

Thank you very much, Jim. This helps a lot. :)

I agree, there really is no need to change anything in fanficfare, keep_in_order does the job as well. I just couldn't for the life of me find these in the ini file, must have kept overlooking it.