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Old 12-12-2023, 03:24 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by nabsltd View Post
The "Manage Authors" box is a list of mappings (one for each author) that shows what the Author Sort for an author should be.

The default for the "string" (as you put it) in each of the fields is calculated by Calibre when the author is first entered into Calibre. After that, Calibre uses the string in the list (which can be edited by the user) to create the Author Sort value, so each one of those mappings is a rule to create the user-desired Author Sort value for that particular author.
You are disputing what the author_sort field is with the person who maintains the Manage Authors code. Whilst there is a rule for arriving at the default value of author-sort, it's an editable field in Manage Authors.

When I added "The Women in Black" by Madeleine St John to my library the author_sort column defaulted to "John, Madeleine St", I changed it in Manage Author's to "St John, Madeleine".

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