ebook-convert command-line arguments ignored

[Reuben Thomas]

Binary package hint: calibre

If I run a command such as

ebook-convert foo.txt foo.fb2 --single-line-paras --title "Foo" --authors "Bar" --language English

then most of the arguments seem to be ignored: I get warnings that I have not specified the language or title (though the author is correctly recognised) and these are not as far as I can see put into the output file.

According to the instructions at

http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/cli/ebook-convert-14.html#txt-input-to-fb2-output

these flags should be valid. Using just one of the ignored flags (and omitting all the rest) doesn't seem to help.

I notice that calibre has been updated quite a bit since the version in Karmic, so perhaps the place to start is with an update?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 28 18:00:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: calibre 0.6.13+dfsg-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: calibre
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Sorry, it seems that the major part of the problem I reported was actually a caching bug in my book reader, NOT a problem with ebook-convert at all: in particular, I think that in fact all the command-line flags ARE being respected.

However, it's still odd that the warnings are being given about missing flags that are both present AND being processed!

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Reuben,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Calibre. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu and Calibre have been updated since then. Also, it seems to be a hardware issue.
Would it alright if we close this ticket?
Take care
G

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Sure, please close it.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, Reuben. I will close the report now.
Have a great day!
:)
G

Closed per reporter’s feedback.