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Originally Posted by Lauraq
Hi 
I imported a lot of books and I would order all authors with the surname before the name, eg:
William Irish
I want to be
Irish William
In the tweak I had already set
author_sort_copy_method = 'copy'
but obviously in some cases does not work, then I copied the books that did not fit into a new library and tried to rename changing "copy" with the other options
"fn ln"
"ln, fn"
'invert'
all work but all insert a comma between the last name and first name. You tell me which command should I use for dont' have the "comma" or what I must do, after the renaming, for delete the comma?
Thanks |
You seem to be talking about two things: 1) ordering of the parts of the author name during import, and 2) generating the author sort value from the author name.
Getting the author name "right" during import is up to you. After import you edit the author so that it appears the way you want. From what you say, it seems as if you want the authors to show as LN FN, but that isn't totally clear.
If you want authors to display as LN FN, then you probably want the author sort tweak to be set to "copy". Author sort will also be LN FN. As said above, it is up to you to ensure that the author names are correct. Calibre can't help you with that.
If you want the author names to display as FN LN and that you want author sort to be LN FN, you should set the tweak to "nocomma". As above, it is up to you to ensure that the author names are all in the correct order.
If you do not use commas then there is no way for calibre to guess what order an author's name is in. "John Doe" and "Doe John" look exactly the same. As a result, things like the quality check plugin and search/replace are probably of no help to you.
Bottom line: it is up to you to ensure that author names are consistently in one form or another. Once that work is done, you set the tweak to tell calibre how to convert an author name to author sort. Because you are not using commas, there is very little automation available to help you.