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Does this make a purely cosmetic change to Calibre, effectively changing how author names are displayed in the Author(s) column of the main window? Or, are your changes altering calibre's file structure instead? Or both?
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Originally Posted by chaley
Both, because calibre uses the authors when building the path.
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Or to look at it differently, it does
neither. There are no changes made to either display or storage. He merely tells Calibre that the "author" is lastname, firstname, when other users tell Calibre that the author's name is "firstname lastname." Whatever you tell Calibre about the author's name will be used as that name.
Anyone can do this without needing chaley's mods (and in fact, IIRC, that's what he did before he wrote his code.) His code just makes it easier to control the parts of Calibre that automatically reverse "firstname lastname" to "lastname, firstname" when creating the author_sort field.