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Originally Posted by kaufman
That's interesting. I wonder why that is. If the program can figure out how to do the series sort, why can't it figure out the other ones?
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It can but it doesn't.
The gory details are something like this: many fields can have different sort values. Especially when things get hairy with different languages. Also, some authors have odd names that don't follow the usual rules -- possibly they have multiple last names or whatever foreign concept I don't care about
-- so you have the ability to manually override those sort values.
However the default value will be the one calibre automatically computes (or the manually specified one in the metadata, which calibre never overwrites).
Why is series_sort different, would be a better question. I am not sure, except maybe it is assumed there will be no need for anyone to ever manually edit the series_sort? I cannot say I have heard of an example where it is necessary...