From fd8109f4185caa25740c63223bbf1ddfe9261124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Haley <> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:26:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Minor edits to the new VL tutorial --- manual/virtual_libraries.rst | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/manual/virtual_libraries.rst b/manual/virtual_libraries.rst index 66448ac680..eb1906355c 100644 --- a/manual/virtual_libraries.rst +++ b/manual/virtual_libraries.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Virtual Libraries ============================ In |app|, a virtual library is a way to tell |app| to open only a subset of a -normal library. For example, if you want to only work with books by a certain +normal library. For example, you might want to only work with books by a certain author, or books having only a certain tag. Using virtual libraries is the preferred way of partitioning your large book collection into smaller sub collections. It is superior to splitting up your library into multiple smaller @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ libraries as, when you want to search through your entire collection, you can simply go back to the full library. There is no way to search through multiple separate libraries simultaneously in |app|. -A virtual library is different to a simple search. A search will only restrict -the list of books shown in the book list. A virtual library does that an in -addition, it also restricts the entries shown in the :guilabel:`Tag Browser` to +A virtual library is different from a simple search. A search will only restrict +the list of books shown in the book list. A virtual library does that, and in +addition it also restricts the entries shown in the :guilabel:`Tag Browser` to the left. The Tag Browser will only show tags, authors, series, publishers, etc. that come from the books in the virtual library. A virtual library thus behaves as though the actual library contains only the restricted set of books. @@ -47,14 +47,15 @@ selected author. You can switch back to the full library at any time by once again clicking the :guilabel:`Virtual Library` and selecting the entry named :guilabel:``. -Virtual Libraries are based on *searches*. You can use any search as the basis -of a virtual library. The virtual library will contain only the books matched -by that search. First, type in the search you want to use in the search bar, -when you are happy with the returned results, click the Virtual Library button, -choose Create Library and enter a name for the new virtual library. The virtual -library will then be created based on the search you just typed in. Searches -are very powerful, for examples of the kinds of things you can do with them, -see :ref:`search_interface`. +Virtual Libraries are based on *searches*. You can use any search as the +basis of a virtual library. The virtual library will contain only the +books matched by that search. First, type in the search you want to use +in the search bar or build a search using the :guilabel:`Tag Browser`. +When you are happy with the returned results, click the Virtual Library +button, choose Create Library and enter a name for the new virtual +library. The virtual library will then be created based on the search +you just typed in. Searches are very powerful, for examples of the kinds +of things you can do with them, see :ref:`search_interface`. Working with Virtual Libraries -------------------------------------