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droopy · 09-06-2019, 05:36 PM

thanks to all who have helped me learn about patching.

I have another suggestion.
Some multi-author ebooks separate the authors with the ampersand symbol (&). In Kobo Forma's listing of authors, it doesn't work very well.
Say I have a book written by Ashley Galloway and Mark Bentham. In my Forma, it will show up under Bentham, but not under Galloway.
This "author entry" will situate itself somewhere like this:

Code:

Lisa Bastke
Ashley Galloway & Mark Bentham
Christopher Browning

I have to edit the author metadata from

Code:

Ashley Galloway & Mark Bentham

to

Code:

Ashley Galloway, Mark Bentham

Forma interprets the comma symbol correctly.
When I make this change, the book will now correctly appear both under Galloway and Bentham.

Questions: Is there a patch to make my Forma correctly interpret the ampersand symbol?
How do you deal with multiauthored books with the ampersand symbol?

09-06-2019, 05:36 PM	#278
droopy Guru Posts: 834 Karma: 2912460 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Kobo Forma	thanks to all who have helped me learn about patching. I have another suggestion. Some multi-author ebooks separate the authors with the ampersand symbol (&). In Kobo Forma's listing of authors, it doesn't work very well. Say I have a book written by Ashley Galloway and Mark Bentham. In my Forma, it will show up under Bentham, but not under Galloway. This "author entry" will situate itself somewhere like this: Code: Lisa Bastke Ashley Galloway & Mark Bentham Christopher Browning I have to edit the author metadata from Code: Ashley Galloway & Mark Bentham to Code: Ashley Galloway, Mark Bentham Forma interprets the comma symbol correctly. When I make this change, the book will now correctly appear both under Galloway and Bentham. Questions: Is there a patch to make my Forma correctly interpret the ampersand symbol? How do you deal with multiauthored books with the ampersand symbol? Last edited by droopy; 09-10-2019 at 09:17 PM.