[ElMiko]

Hi there, calibre developers! I know you have oodles of free time, particularly since none of you have recently made a life-changing relocation of any sort.

I have a question about future functionality with respect to foreign languages in general, and indefinite articles in particular. Namely, with calibre's increasing support for foreign language e-text, I was curious as to the possibility/desirability of a selectable function that would, in a batch (or individual) edit, appropriately adjust the indefinite articles in "title sort" field based on a Language selection. That is, upon selecting "French" (in a drop down menu, or something), the edit function would use the title, "Une fois pour toutes" to fill the "title sort" field with "fois pour toutes, Une". Or if you were to select "Spanish" it would use "El amor en los tiempos de colera" in the title field to create a "title sort" of "amor en los tiempos de colera, El". Or for Italian use "Il padrino" to get "padrino, Il". (I'm all out of multi-lingual examples).

Currently, the user can go through and do this manually, but it sets off the "not matching" red goof light. Also, it's pretty tedious (if admittedly kind of meditative).

Seriously (for a moment), I know that calibre development is a labor of love, and that the financial compensation in all likelihood falls way short of the manhours you've all dedicated to it. So of the three words in the thread title, I hope you pay most attention to the first one. This posts (and the others I've made of its ilk) is really written in the spirit of providing "food for thought", not critical scrutiny. As far as I'm concerned, every single piece of added functionality is a luxury -- pure gravy, since calibre already does more than any tool I could've possibly designed myself.

And, as always, thanks for taking the time to read.