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Originally Posted by DrChiper
My brain needed some time to apsorb the above.
The short conclusion: it will not work for me.
In my case I have already in the calibre DB:
Code:
FN LN & FN LN & ...
Hence, this gives automagically in calibre for author_sort:
Code:
LN, FN & LN, FN & ...
Kobo, however, regards ',' (=comma) as an author separation and thus splits any author_sort string into 2 entries: which we (I) do not want.
Conclusion: unsolvable problem... or is it?
Can we perhaps via plugboard substitute the ',' (=comma) from author_sort into something else (a kind of comma resembling character), like for instance a cedilla (U+0088) ?
I tried this with my non-existant calibre template language knowledge and produced something like this (don't laugh):
Code:
{program:re(author_sort:list_item(0,&),',', 'U+0088')}
(This would try to replace only in the very first author_sort list entry the comma by something else.)
I got nowhere.
But, when this is still feasible, what would be the proper replacement template construct? |
I don't understand. The provided template uses authors, not author_sort. If an author has a comma in the name (LN, FN) then the template changes it to FN, LN. It then changes all the & to commas. This is shown by the screen capture.
Did you try the template?