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Originally Posted by DeBig
Thank you for your answer, Kovid - but I don't understand well : the replace field in the bulk metadata edit pop-up are the book's metadata fields, not those of the tags table, isn't it ?
My objective is a bulk editing/management of the author table - trying to do that through "<dc:creator opf:role="aut" opf:file-as=Surname, etc. " of epub files (normalized, verified with exceptions)
Actually, if you import an epub with
<dc:creator opf:role="aut" opf:file-as="La Farge, Oliver">Oliver La Farge</dc:creator>
The author table entry will be :
Oliver La Farge - Farge, Oliver La (applying the standard Calibre algorithm)
Denis
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Simplest way to correct sort names of that kind is via the Manage Authors feature, which you can get to via right clicking on an author name in the Book Details or Tag Browser panels, or via the Configure button at the bottom of the Tag browser
Edit the sort name for the author in question to be as you want it, e.g.
La Farge, Oliver;
St John, Madeleine;
Bonham Carter, Victor, or
García Lorca, Federico etc. I included the last two as examples of names that are not the sort of things you want to fix with a tweak. Not all double barrelled are hyphenated and there are rules that define who can hyphenate their names. Any sort names you override will persist.
BR