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Old 01-19-2011, 10:43 AM   #1
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Regular expression for Title sort

I prefer to have the author sort show the First Name and then the Last Name.

In order to do this to all of my ebooks in calibre, I did the following using the search and replace panel.

1. In the Search field I selected author_sort.
2. In the Search for field: (.*)
3. In the replace with field: \1
4. Destination field: author sort

This worked like a dream. It gave me exactly what I wanted. Thanks to all those geniuses who develop this software.

I also prefer to have the Title Sort the same as the Title of the book. For example, one of my books is The Big Four. The Title sort in the edit meta information panel is Big Four, The. I don't like this. I would prefer to have the Title sort as: The Big Four.

So I thought I could do the same thing as the Author sort. I thought that I could simply copy the data in the the 'Title' field to the Title Sort field.

Sigh. No luck. There is no title_sort name in the Destination field.

Is it possible to do this? Could this please, please be a feature in the future?

Thank you very much.
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