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Originally Posted by Merischino
I spent the last few hours completely re-editing the metadata for my existing calibre file, with the view that clearly, what I was doing wasn't working. So, knowing that there is a tweak (that I don't have) I decided to do something pretty simple, spend the time to be thorough, and then come back here with the "fixed" database and the "fixed" i hope metadata.db file which i hope will acurrately reflect what I describe below.
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This metadata.db looks correct to me.
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It seems that there is a problem, at least in my installation of Calibre, where having your own rules for what data you enter in to the "author sort" fields and what order you put the names in the "author" field creates havoc.
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I don't know why you say this. You can put anything you want into either, but you have to turn off the option that tells Calibre to automatically set author_sort.
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Field Entry
Author = Author's name in first_name last_name order
Author sort = left blank
Author sort automatically? check box = checked
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Just so you understand - if you have the option to set Author sort automatically, that's what it will do, based on what is in author.
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Where the result is that the list in all cases does display as firstname lastname, and does sort in all cases uplon lastname
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As it should.
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Which -- is definitely an improvement over what I had before. STill not what I want, but I can definitely work with it this way.
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This is Calibre's default. It was originally designed this way, but tweaks have been added for people who want last name first.
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Next is the question, what tweak do I need and where do I get it, so that I can display authors my way and not get shown the highway?
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Preferences|Advanced|"Open Calibre configuration directory"|edit tweaks.py
Info on the options is in that file. Use notepad to edit it or another ascii editor.