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DMee · 07-06-2012, 06:20 AM

Just got pointed to this Plugin to correct my Authors LN,FN => FN LN and realised how wonderful it is :-)

I still have loads of problems to wade through and wondered if you could add them to the plugin?

If titles and authors have been switched on some books these can be a pain to find - I ended up doing loads of Author searches for any non-alpha character but not knowing regex I had to individually do Author:":" , then Author:";" etc etc etc - is there any way you could extend the "Author contains/doesn't "," routine to be Author contains anything non-alpha / non-alph excluding "," ??

Also, have a problem with some metadata sources returning author initials differently...
is it...

AJ Smith
A.J. Smith
A. J. Smith
A.J. Smith

etc etc - all of which produce multiple author entries in calibre2opds .

Any way of finding and correcting these errors? Obviously different people will have different opinions as to what is the "correct" method which may complicate things :-(

Otherwise its an excellent plugin :-)

07-06-2012, 06:20 AM	#521
DMee Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Stockport, UK Device: ipad, iphone, kindle	Just got pointed to this Plugin to correct my Authors LN,FN => FN LN and realised how wonderful it is :-) I still have loads of problems to wade through and wondered if you could add them to the plugin? If titles and authors have been switched on some books these can be a pain to find - I ended up doing loads of Author searches for any non-alpha character but not knowing regex I had to individually do Author:":" , then Author:";" etc etc etc - is there any way you could extend the "Author contains/doesn't "," routine to be Author contains anything non-alpha / non-alph excluding "," ?? Also, have a problem with some metadata sources returning author initials differently... is it... AJ Smith A.J. Smith A. J. Smith A.J. Smith etc etc - all of which produce multiple author entries in calibre2opds . Any way of finding and correcting these errors? Obviously different people will have different opinions as to what is the "correct" method which may complicate things :-( Otherwise its an excellent plugin :-)