
I thought this was an easy one

So I tried to set up an example. HA! FAIL I think Tags are special and my normal carve-out routine fails
My characters (and others) tags were even more problematic as they have paren:
Bren Cameron (Fictitious Character)
I tried escaping the \( pair
With and without commas (tags)
We never got as far as the
When first or last in the tag list
Sorry not to be of further help.