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Starson17 · 10-21-2010, 11:50 AM

A minor update/change:

Responding to a bug report/enhancement request, the autosort/automerge option in Adding Books|"If books with similar author ..found" (used in Adding Books and Copy to Library to identify matching books in the library) now uses Charles' title_sort_articles tweak to identify articles to be ignored during the compare. (Other fuzzy title matching is still done to ignore punctuation, multiple spaces, etc.)

The default tweak is: title_sort_articles=r'^(A|The|An)\s+' which means the default autosort/automerge behavior is unchanged even if the tweak is undefined.

The comparison is done with case ignored. Changing the tweak to title_sort_articles=r'^(A|The|An|XYz)\s+' means that a book with the title "XYZ Circus" will match all these book titles:
"Circus"
"circus"
"A Circus"
"a Circus"
"the Circus"
"The Circus"
"An circus"
"AN Circus"
"xyz Circus"
etc., provided the author(s) field also matches.

10-21-2010, 11:50 AM	#1
Starson17 Wizard Posts: 4,004 Karma: 177841 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: WinMo: IPAQ; Android: HTC HD2, Archos 7o; Java:Gravity T	FYI @Charles: article sort tweak and autosort/automerge A minor update/change: Responding to a bug report/enhancement request, the autosort/automerge option in Adding Books\|"If books with similar author ..found" (used in Adding Books and Copy to Library to identify matching books in the library) now uses Charles' title_sort_articles tweak to identify articles to be ignored during the compare. (Other fuzzy title matching is still done to ignore punctuation, multiple spaces, etc.) The default tweak is: title_sort_articles=r'^(A\|The\|An)\s+' which means the default autosort/automerge behavior is unchanged even if the tweak is undefined. The comparison is done with case ignored. Changing the tweak to title_sort_articles=r'^(A\|The\|An\|XYz)\s+' means that a book with the title "XYZ Circus" will match all these book titles: "Circus" "circus" "A Circus" "a Circus" "the Circus" "The Circus" "An circus" "AN Circus" "xyz Circus" etc., provided the author(s) field also matches.