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Old 06-19-2011, 11:11 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by TdeV View Post
In the leftmost pane, how do I get the list of authors to display alphabetically (i.e. in sort order)?
Left most is the Tag browser (if open).
at the bottom of that, there are 3 pulldown boxes.
The top one should say 'Sort by name'

If you are refering to the 'Author(s)' column.
Click the header. the arrohead indicates direction.

If the order is not correct. the the metadata 'author sort' is probably RED

and you need to correct the errors
There is a tweak to control the auto Author sort fillin
Code:
The algorithm used to copy author to author_sort
Possible values are:
invert: use "fn ln" -> "ln, fn"
copy  : copy author to author_sort without modification
comma : use 'copy' if there is a ',' in the name, otherwise use 'invert'
nocomma : "fn ln" -> "ln fn" (without the comma)
When this tweak is changed, the author_sort values stored with each author
must be recomputed by right-clicking on an author in the left-hand tags pane,
selecting 'manage authors', and pressing 'Recalculate all author sort values'.
The author name suffixes are words that are ignored when they occur at the
end of an author name. The case of the suffix is ignored and trailing
periods are automatically handled.
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