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Originally Posted by chaley
Almost all of them are related to 'noble' names containing what the French call 'particules'.
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Thanks for the detailed response. If you have time, one more question. I saw your bug track conversation with Kovid where he suggested that you revise the code to display the author in your preferred format, while keeping the calibre default for author. Why was that not a good approach?
You started your post stating that you didn't want to have your eyes "bounce around the page looking for a lastname, even if the list is sorted correctly." Given that you can use the author_sort field for output in Save to Disk and Send to Device, what's wrong with merely displaying it in your preferred format, while keeping both the author and author_sort fields as Kovid designed them? Your method seems to make the author field essentially the same as the author_sort field, aside from the particules issue and that could probably be addressed the same way that leading articles like 'A' and 'The' are handled when sorting titles.
What I'm asking is - What use (other than the GUI display) do you make of your reverse stored author field that can't be handled by using the author_sort field?