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Old 09-09-2008, 03:49 PM   #184
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Calibre uses the , to denote multiple authors and the ; to denote lastname; first name. To me, that's the logical thing to do.
Funny... I'd have expected something like "Last, First" for each author, with multiple authors indicated some other way. Perhaps "Last1, First1 & Last2, First2, & ..." Of course there's still the question of how to deal with multiple editors, (or even just a single editor). And books where Author and Editor both matter. And...

May I suggest that a quick discussion with an actual librarian is in order? They've already been dealing with these problems since forever.

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