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Originally Posted by chaley
It is a mechanical process? If so, can you describe it in steps that don't require a human to decide? I ask because you might be able to do this automatically with a column built from other columns.
Also, did you look at the tweak "Control sorting of titles and series in the library display (ID: title_series_sorting)"? If you change that to "strictly_alphabetic" then the articles are not moved to the end when automatically constructing the title sort value. If you change the tweak then you must tell calibre to recalculate all the title sort values by selecting all the books, going to Edit Metadata, and checking the "Update title sort" box.
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If by mechanical, you mean automatically have the system do it. No, I have to put the first letter for each book in the column. I was trying to figure out if a plug-in would work but couldn't wrap my mind around it, yet.
Yes, I have my sort set to "strictly-alphabetic. I have about 650 ebooks starting with "The" and in the tag browser using my column they are broken down further by The.A, The.B, The.C, etc. Sure cuts down on reviewing the titles.
If I did a "column built from other columns" would I be able to get the hierarchy of A.A, A.B, A.C, The.A, The.B...? I have also used a comma in a few places where there is the main title with a colon and then the title of that eBook (like an eBook of 3 that I split and kept the original title: eBook title.)