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Originally Posted by Wiggo
I don't know if it's me or the plugin.
I always get "LN, FN" for authors but with the other Lib-plugs the normal "FN LN", so I always have tho change it.
Is it possible to change this or make it optional?
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It's the plugin:
Most other metadata sources (Amazon, BOL,...) only return "FN LN" and Calibre has to guess what's the last name for the sort order.
DNB delivers authors as "LN, FN", so Calibre does not have to guess, sort order is always perfectly correct, and I don't want to sacrifice that.
According to the docs, Calibre's plugin API allows me to set three metadata fields for authors: authors, author_sort and author_sort_map:
"author" is the list that gets displayed as "Authors", "author_sort" is a single author's name used for sorting books and gets displayed nowhere(?).
The docs for "authors_sort_map" read like I could use that to assign author names in "FN LN" to their "LN, FN". This way Calibre I could use the correct data from DNB, Calibre would not have to guess, and we could have "FN LN" for authors. So that would be the solution making everyone happy.
But regardless what I try, I can't get it working.