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Originally Posted by HarryT
We are talking at cross purposes. You're talking about editing the author's name; I'm talking about editing its sort order.
Eg, if you have the famous Dutch author "Dick van Writer", you would, to conform to Dutch sorting rules, want to list him as "van Writer, Dick", but have his name sorted under "Writer", not "van". You can achieve this by setting the author's name as "van Writer, Dick" and the author sort as "Writer, Dick van", on the metadata screen.
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As I use Calibre (i.e. Preferences etc) I would put
Dick van Writer into the
author.name column, and the default value of
author.sort would be
Writer, Dick van - so no change necessary in Edit Metadata or Manage Authors.
If you look at the attached screen shots you'll see the difference I'm referring to in the 'treatment' of Madeleine St John and Lauren St John.
Madeleine : The 1st screen shot shows that in Metadata edit I changed the Author sort: value from John, Madeleine St to St John, Madeleine - and the text box acquired a pink background. Yet the Manage Authors list, Tag Browser and database still show John, Madeleine St... yes I have clicked OK on the edit, and gone back to it - see 2nd screen shot for a quality check on author_sort.
However look at the book list - Madeleine St John is sorted as St John, and shown after Lauren St John which is what I want, but... what about the rest.
Lauren : In Manage Authors I changed the Author sort cell value from John, Lauren St to St John, Lauren and hit OK, in the 3rd attachment you'll see that this is what's shown in Metadata Edit - and the text box background is green. And in the Manage Authors list, the Tag Browser and the database its shown as St John, Lauren and of course its sorted as St John.
I like this as I not only get what I want (manual control over the sort name as and when required), I also see the value I want, and I don't get any pink text boxes or 'spurious' reports from the QC Check author sort function.
maybe this is not the way Calibre is supposed to work. I think I stumbled on this under my own steam - can't recall reading anything here about changing Author sort in Manage Authors or in the manual.
But back to my original point, I think it would be nice to have something like a checkbox to the right of the Author Sort text box that became active if the default value was overtyped. If checked it would 'force' the overtyped value into the author.sort column in the same way as changing an Author sort cell in Manage Authors does.
This should get rid of the pink text box, show the desired value in the Tag Browser, Manage Authors and the database and not be picked up by the Quality Check plug-in as an Author sort 'error'.
BR