[Hoods7070]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Again, why not just change Line 19 of the template.xhtml from

<td class="cbj_author" colspan="2">{author}</td>

to

<td class="cbj_author" colspan="2">{author_sort}</td>

It seems as though you are only switching to LN, FN in order to replace that chunk right there.

Thanks @eschwartz and @DMee.

I am obviously being dense here, so bear with me. I fiddle with templates etc. without any in depth knowledge of html.

To reiterate, what I want is:

Desired booklist sort: LASTNAME, comma, FIRSTNAME
Desired jacket view in epub itself: author FN space LASTNAME

For any sorting of the author FN/LN order to be remotely meaningful, the entire selection of books HAS to be uniform to start with - i.e. all FN/LN, or vice versa. Otherwise you are simply reversing their order. Hence my first using the plugin to select individual books within the selected book range that are showing as LN/FN to change them to FN/LN. After inserting the jacket, I use the plugin to revert the entire selection of books to LN/FN.

The whole point here really is that there is no standard for metadata as yet, and books come with varying order of FN/LN, and my entire database is inconsistent at the moment.

With or without "sort" added in the template, the jacket created by Modify epub defaults to whatever is in the booklist view.

My tiny brain says for any sort to do anything in any database it needs to recognize delimiters of some sort. Therefore, within the Calibre column/field the comma between author FN/LN becomes a secondary delimiter.

FWIW, at my end, inserting _sort into line 19 of the original Calibre template removes the author field from the jacket entirely in the jacket ....

I hope any of this makes sense. I am utterly confused!!