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this is exactly how i have been setting up my library.. using suffixes in brackets for additional roles:
(ed) - editor
(trans) - translator
(cont) - contributor
I thought this was working really well, particularly as in the "Author Sort" field, everything in brackets is ignored.. perfect.
However, I have now realised that although ignored in this field, they are not ignored in the Authors field that shows in the tag browser or the book details view.
This means that if you have an author that has written some books and edited others (George RR Martin) they will show as 2 entries in the tag browser and if you click on their name in the book details view, it will only show results for either entry, i.e. George RR Martin or George RR Martin (ed).
The tag browser view doesn't even show the suffixes, so not sure why they don't just combine the entries under one author, so when you clicked on George RR Martin it would show all works either written or edited, etc.
I thought I might be able to get around the book details view issue by using "Author Sort" instead, which does ignore the bracketed suffixes, but clicking on a name using this field only serves up 1 result, rather than all books listed under that author.
If there has been an update or I am missing something, please let me know
thanks
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