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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
That's because there is no such thing as a metadata editor for authors. If you wish order to always be preserved, simply dont use that editor for your custom column.
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I'm wondering if you misunderstood my post. I took your suggestion
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Add your own columns (check the box that says 'Contains names'). IIRC, order is preserved for tags like columns containing names, just like it is for the authors column, you will have to use & instead of , as the separator, however.
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as meaning such a column would behave like the Author column in all respects
If I add and remove values in the suggested custom column in the Metadata Editor they can get reordered. If I edit them in the Book List via F2 they don't seem to get reordered (but I am not sure that's 100% true). However, space is at a premium in the book list, so if there are more than a few values its more convenient to edit them in the Metadata Editor.
My experience is that in the Author column the order of 'values' is always preserved - no matter what. So when the custom column did not behave that way, ie values got reordered, I tried to make it happen with the Author names, in case
I was mistaken. I couldn't, but I wouldn't want or expect that I could.
In other respects a Names custom column behaves like the Authors column, including the
Use author sort in Tag Browser and
Author sort name algorithm tweaks.
As far as I can tell its only in the preservation of the order of values when they're edited via the Metadata Editor dialogue that a Names custom column doesn't behave like the Author column. I don't mind that they get reordered, but if they weren't then I could live with that too.
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