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Originally Posted by GeoffR
With recent firmware the author sorting works differently in different places, and unfortunately the last-name sorting of the Authors tab is just plain broken, there is no way to make it sort all names correctly regardless what format you use. But you will get better results if you use "Fn Ln" format, because the comma is used to separate the author names in books with multiple authors.
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How is the authors list sorting more broken than the book list? The only difference I can see is that it is case sensitive and things like "Jr.". The only other issue is how it breaks up multiple authors. If you use an ampersand or "and", then is treated as a single author in the author list. Then it is sorted on the last word in that name. Which agrees with how the book list is sorted - last word in what it considers to be a name.
My examples in my post above are from memory. But, before adopting the plugboard I did have an ampersand as the separator and did test the sorting, and I'm pretty sure that is how it worked.