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Originally Posted by revjoe
Yeah, I have a separate library for periodicals as well. As for it being one author, what I gave was just an example. For some stats:
Total record: 3096
Total Authors: 312
Affected Authors * : 31
Affected Books *: 441
Affected books have either "and" or "&" in the Author field, thus being split into separate authors. Compounding matters, many share words, so I have an author "Muscle" that can reflect back to several different periodicals.
So I have about 10% of my authors being affected, and about 14% of my total records. Hence the question.
I was hoping I could do something like prepend a " ' " the way excel does in order to make the column as text, or add a " \ " to the " & " character to have it avoid being split upon. I will have to go back and examine whether changing the split fields will end up doing more hard than good.
Thanks for the input everyone.
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If you 'null' the regular expression in authors_split_regex (see attachment) then that will stop it splitting on 'and' and 'with'. Then you could at least change "Muscle & Fitness" to "Muscle and Fitness" etc
But, as theducks has the reminded us, doing this sort of thing can screw up your other libraries. I think all the Tweaks are global, so you have to remember to adjust them when you switch libraries.
Maybe I should bite the bullet and put my 3 major libraries into separate calibre portable installation folders - weekend job I think
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