Thread: Author Field Ordering Won't Stick?
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Old 03-22-2009, 02:35 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
This is a known limitation. You can't influence the order of authors shown in the GUI.
Then I'm thoroughly confused.

What is the difference between the fields "author(s)" and "author sort"? To me, it seems that "author(s)" would list how to display the authors on screen but it would use the "author sort" field to determine how to sort it. But apparently that is not what's going on. So what exactly is going on?
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