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[Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 07 February 2009 08:17:50 Marshall T. Vandegrift wrote:
> The interface for Readers is even more simple.  As I'm sure you've had
> in mind the whole time, but I just realized, the way conversion chains
> need to work is that the user will select the output format while
> calibre auto-detects the input format.  If calibre is detecting the
> input format per conversion, then it can't present any options which
> vary with input format.

Before I check out the code, let me address this. I am hoping to allow both 
readers and writers to present options to customize their behavior. The 
command line interface will be

ebook-convert file.input file.output [options]

where the order of arguments is significant. The available options will be 
adjusted based on the types of the input and output file names.

Kovid.

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