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Originally Posted by hnrsoftware
@theducks - thanks for the quick reply, but I can't see relevance of your comments. The order and displays are just fine, it is the saving to disk that is giving me problems.
With most of my ebooks, title sort with "The" at the end is not distracting, but with "The Saint", the "The" is almost an honorific like "Mr." or "Sir", rather than a throw-away article that gets in the way. Since there is a piece of data called "{title}", which is what I want, I just want to be able to use it.
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I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for BUT under 'Preferences/Change calibre behaviour/Advanced/Tweaks' you can adjust what calibre makes out of the title and series.
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'Control sorting of title and series the library display'
The help-window explains that point as followed: If set to 'library_order', the title sort field will be used instead of the title. Unless you have manually edited the title sort field, leading articles such as The and A will be ignored. If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted as-is (sort by title instead of title sort). For example, with library_order, The Client will sort under 'C'. With strictly_alphabetic, the book will sort under 'T'.
And you also can change the point
'Control formatting of title and series when used in templates'
The help-window explains that point as followed: Control how title and series names are formatted when saving to disk/sending to device. The behavior depends on the field being processed. If processing title, then if this tweak is set to 'library_order', the title will be replaced with title_sort. If it is set to 'strictly_alphabetic', then the title will not be changed. If processing series, then if set to 'library_order', articles such as 'The' and 'An' will be moved to the end. If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the series will be sent without change. For example, if the tweak is set to library_order, "The Lord of the Rings" will become "Lord of the Rings, The". If the tweak is set to strictly_alphabetic, it would remain "The Lord of the Rings". Note that the formatter function raw_field will return the base value for title and series regardless of the setting of this tweak.
I have changed the first point for my library to: title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'
because I like it more when the title is not changed from what I enter. With this, when I save to disk, the title is saved like my library (even with not changing the second point). If you don't want to change the first point, well then maybe try only the second.
Hope that is what you are looking for.
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