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Originally Posted by chaley
Uhhhh... Why do that? Why not set the tweak and let calibre do it? That way, the title_sort value has what you want in it. I suppose that if you have a lot of books and don't want to do the 'forced update' bit described below, then this approach works.
@pghaworth: changing the tweak doesn't change the values in the database. You need to force calibre to do an update to the metadata of every book. There are three general ways to do that.
3) If your author_sort values are all computed from the author values, then you can force the recomputation in one step by selecting all your books, hitting 'E' to get to bulk metadata edit, checking the 'Automatically set author sort' box, and pressing OK. Calibre will change the author sort to what it already is, recomputing the title sort in the process. This is what I would do.
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Hi chaley
If I try to do as above the calibre library view shows the Author sort
LN, FN contarary the way i want! that is it
inverts*
Unless I misunderstood you or missing something obvious....
My author field is
FN LN
And I want my Author sort field to be the same as my Author(s) field i.e.
FN LN.
What should I do to rectify this?
I am on Win7 x64, Calibre v0.7.23
*) My tweaks are :
Code:
# The algorithm used to copy author to author_sort
# Possible values are:
# invert: use "fn ln" -> "ln, fn" (the original algorithm)
# copy : copy author to author_sort without modification
# comma : use 'copy' if there is a ',' in the name, otherwise use 'invert'
author_sort_copy_method = 'copy'
# Set whether boolean custom columns are two- or three-valued.
# Two-values for true booleans
# three-values for yes/no/unknown
# Set to 'yes' for three-values, 'no' for two-values
bool_custom_columns_are_tristate = 'yes'
# Control title and series sorting in the library view.
# If set to 'library_order', Leading articles such as The and A will be ignored.
# If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted without processing
# For example, with library_order, The Client will sort under 'C'. With
# strictly_alphabetic, the book will sort under 'T'.
# This flag affects Calibre's library display. It has no effect on devices. In
# addition, titles for books added before changing the flag will retain their
# order until the title is edited. Double-clicking on a title and hitting return
# without changing anything is sufficient to change the sort.
title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'
# Control how title and series names are formatted when saving to disk/sending
# to device. If set to library_order, leading articles such as The and A will
# be put at the end
# If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted without processing
# For example, with library_order, "The Client" will become "Client, The". With
# strictly_alphabetic, it would remain "The Client".
save_template_title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'