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GeoffR · 06-10-2017, 01:39 PM

The last name sort on the Authors pages is very badly done. It is a pity because the author sort used for the books list is a last name sort, and it works well, even if there is a mixture of different formats (e.g. "John Smith" and "Smith, Jane" are both correctly sorted under "S") and splits the authors where there is a combining word such as "and".

I'm not sure why they couldn't have just re-used the existing author sort function instead of creating a new, faulty one just for the Authors pages.

06-10-2017, 01:39 PM	#4
GeoffR Wizard Posts: 3,821 Karma: 19162882 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Te Riu-a-Māui Device: Kobo Glo	The last name sort on the Authors pages is very badly done. It is a pity because the author sort used for the books list is a last name sort, and it works well, even if there is a mixture of different formats (e.g. "John Smith" and "Smith, Jane" are both correctly sorted under "S") and splits the authors where there is a combining word such as "and". I'm not sure why they couldn't have just re-used the existing author sort function instead of creating a new, faulty one just for the Authors pages. Last edited by GeoffR; 06-10-2017 at 01:42 PM. Reason: ... combining word such as "and"