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davidfor · 06-14-2012, 10:34 PM

One thing you can do that hasn't been mentioned is to manually set the author sort.

Right click on "Authors" in the tag browser and select "Manage Authors". On that dialog, you can change the author or author sort to whatever you want. If you right-click on an author, there is an option to copy the author to the author sort. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to do more than one author at a time.

Also, you can right-click on an author in the tag browser and see similar options as are in the Manage Authors dialog.

While doing the above takes time, the advantage is that everything else works as expected that uses the author sort field. It also means you can be selective with which authors are treated as real names vs pen names.

06-14-2012, 10:34 PM	#12
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	One thing you can do that hasn't been mentioned is to manually set the author sort. Right click on "Authors" in the tag browser and select "Manage Authors". On that dialog, you can change the author or author sort to whatever you want. If you right-click on an author, there is an option to copy the author to the author sort. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to do more than one author at a time. Also, you can right-click on an author in the tag browser and see similar options as are in the Manage Authors dialog. While doing the above takes time, the advantage is that everything else works as expected that uses the author sort field. It also means you can be selective with which authors are treated as real names vs pen names.