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Old 10-31-2017, 03:42 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
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.
Well the mishandling of case-sensitivity and failure to recognise special cases like "jr." are what makes the Authors tab last-name sort broken. Every name can be made to sort correctly in the Books list, but there are some that can't be made to sort correctly in the Authors tab.

A real world example: "John le Carré" (with a hard space between "le" and "Carré") sorts correctly under L in the Books list, but sorts after Z in the Authors tab.
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