Thread: Is it possible to force "Ln, Fn" for Author and Author sort?
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Old 10-31-2017, 08:21 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Kuram View Post
I have, and why's that?


But no, given how Kobo handles authors, that's not what I want to do. My calibre has the same value for author and author sort, which is "Ln, Fn", but I want a plugboard that sends "Fn Ln".

Unless there's a good reason to not have "Ln, Fn" in Calibre as you've stated, but I don't really know what reason that could be.
If you want a reason, then read what you have written. It is a perfect example.

The recommendation in calibre is to keep the metadata as their "natural" values (can't think of a better word right now). You can then massage this to display it in other ways. Calibre has good handling for the author and author sort, so using them makes sense.

But, you should be able to write a template to do what you want. You can split on the comma and put the two parts back together. If no-one chimes in with solution, I'll have a think at home tonight. But, oren64's suggestion will also solve it overall.
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