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Old 09-29-2022, 08:15 AM   #9
chaley
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Originally Posted by DrChiper View Post
What I have in my basic metadata is shown in the attachment. What I want to send to Kobo is marked in red from the author_sort list part. Hence:
Code:
author_sort:list_item(0,&)
The provided templates all work, as you correctly remarked, on the authors list.
I tested this indeed (it works), but the result is not different from what I can get by using the authors list directly as my content does not contain any commas at all.
Hope this clarifies it.
I understand you saying that you want to send the first author, not all the authors. I also understand you saying that all the authors are already FN LN.

Why are you using author_sort? Why not use authors? As in
Code:
{authors:list_item(0,&)}
If for some reason you really want to use author_sort instead of authors then this does it.
Code:
program: swap_around_comma(list_item($author_sort, 0, '&'))
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