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Originally Posted by Lauraq
... it should be trivial to have the option to reverse first and last name, or do not put a comma (it is not clear what it is for), ...
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Reversing first and last name is trivial and several ways to do so have been mentioned already.
The comma allows calibre to know which word is a first name or last name. The program has to know which name to use when sorting by author.
The program does not know every first and last name in the world. All the program knows is a certain group of letters is a name and -- depending on whether there is a space (" ") or comma and space (", ") -- if this particular bunch of letters is supposed to be a first name or last name.
If you use
author sort = "copy" then the exact author name you enter into the field will be used for sorting, without a comma. But that means you are going to have to do the necessary work to enter information the way you want it to appear. Every other user of this software has had to do the same thing for their unique needs.