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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I bought Shirley van Pelt's book "Remarkably Bright Creatures" today, and Calibre sorts her name as "Pelt, Shirley van" For family names/surnames with compound elements (van, van de, van den, von, de de la, da, Te, etc. etc. etc.), how do I instruct Calibre that the compound element, often with a lowercase initial letter, is part of the family name, not a secondary given name?
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There are two ways to change it for a single author:
- In the tag browser, right-click on the author, chose Edit sort, and type in what you want.
- In the tag browser, right click on any author, choose Manage authors, then change as many as you want. (NB: this fails in calibre 6.0, works in calibre 6.1.
All the books will be updated with the change.
If you want to tell calibre to try to do it when a new book is imported, go to Preferences / Tweaks. Search for author_use_surname_prefixes. Set that tweak to True. Make sure that the author_surname_prefixes list immediately below has the prefixes you want to use. Changing the tweak does not change any existing author.