$Type becomes available when you enable the
format_booktype option in the config.in (set it to
True). This will eventually change to a GUI option once the new file-rename / preview system comes into place.
$Annual will only be applied if the given issue is an Annual. If you have annual integration enabled, this won't apply for folders, but only for files (since the folders would be named after the series and the annual files would be dumped there). If you have some other problem related to the
$Annual tag, please indicate exactly what's happening and possibly provide a debug log showing the directory creation.
$Force_Type is a general declaration - it's mean to be inclusive of anything related - as in TBP/HC/Compendiums. I realize that the naming is not inclusive, but the more variations we have in naming different booktypes the more exclusions have to be made throughout various modules within Mylar to accomodate the settings. There is no 'booktype' field within CV - it's all based off of descriptions and they're far from being consistent. Adding the 'HC' tag might be able to get done at some point, but atm everything TPB, GN , Comps (which are basially HC anyways since they're almost always omnibus') all fall under TPB.
Imprints aren't part of the CV api at all. CV tends to throw imprints up as publishers in some cases, but usually just leaves the parent as the actual publisher and ignores imprint altogether and just leaves it at that. Mylar uses a separate
github repo that holds all the imprints, parent publishers and their respective publication dates. Mylar uses the information from CV when referencing the imprint repo to determine if it was published during that specific timeframe and if CV makes mention of the imprint anywhere. If it does, it gets tagged with the respective imprint value within Mylar.
$imprint isn't available atm - mainly because I wasn't 100% sure how the imprint lookup feature would work out and didn't want to be messing up everyone's established directory structures. Once we can determine it's working fine, and it's matching things up properly (from what I've seen it seems to be doing a pretty decent job) - we can make the option available therein.
All publisher-related information comes from CV - the imprint portion was a separate entity where the data was collected from. We can look into changing it so that it's just
Marvel instead of
Marvel Comics in order to correlate with CV naming, although the actual name of the publisher is in fact Marvel Comics, not Marvel (as that's the parent company which holds all the other ventures underneath).