Basically, they should both work by default since they have "manual" in the name, but they don't. Also, when I try to add them in with the config, they still don't work.

# Configuration file

general {
    B:"Allow all items to be added"=false
    S:"Blacklisted Mods" <
     >
    S:"Mod Aliases" <
        botanicaladdons=botania
        ThermalDynamics=ThermalExpansion
        rftoolsdim=rftools
     >
    S:"Whitelisted Items" <
        evilcraft:originsOfDarkness
        opencomputers:tool:4
        immersiveengineering:tool:3
     >
    S:"Whitelisted Names" <
        book
        tome
        lexicon
        nomicon
        tablet
        manual
        knowledge
        pedia
        compendium
        guide
     >
}

Akashic Tome 1.0-3
Open Computers 1.6.0.3rc1
Immersive Engineering 0.10-42

As it stands, you can't currently use metadata for item defining. I'll work on that soon.

Is that also the reason they didn't get added with the "manual" name wildcard?

Yes, because it matches on the item name.

ah, good to know

@BBoldt, for now the best way to get the manuals in is to turn on "allow all items to be added"

I whitelisted the word "tool", so a bit less than "all items". Still a lot of things that shouldn't be addable though.