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Old 07-30-2014, 05:30 AM   #28
chaley
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Originally Posted by kaufman View Post
Or, since you know how many there are, just show the singular form of the label if there is only one of the item and show the plural form otherwise. I wouldn't ask, but you were laughing at me.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
I think there is a difference -- by author there is usually one author for a book, but sometimes there are more.

By tags and identifiers and a bunch of other things, there is no default assumption that there only be one -- any number is as likely as any other.
We had this code lying around to take care of this in the header text in the grouping drawer, so I did it for all the labels that have singular or plural forms and can have more than one item.

Interesting to note: "Series" is singular and plural in English, but in other languages like French one uses two different words. The other code had already accounted for that possibility.
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