[DrJanet]

Charles,

I was very excited to read about your very generous attempt to deal with the LName, FName format and author_sort, but I could not get it to work. I'm using the Mac version, but I thought I found some suitable workarounds. For instance, I found a preference panel to modify the system's environment variables, which I used to set the CALIBRE_AUTHOR_SORT_METHOD to 'none', or to 'none-if-comma'. Then I updated to calibre v 0.6.37. However, when I tried to use your __init__.py file by putting it in the following directory (it was a bit different from your instructions for the Windows version, but the main thing that came close), /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/site-packages/calibre/ebooks/metadata all I got was calibre refusing to launch. Deleting the existing .pyo file didn't work. Nor did putting it into other likely-sounding directories. The only difference I could see between your .py file and the pyo file was that the.py was listed as type 'text' with a Python icon, while the .pyo files was seen as just a generic document.

I also downloaded your other file to modify the GUI, auth_sort_changes-GUI.txt. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. As you can see, it downloaded as as .txt file. I tried putting into /Applications/Calibre 0.6.3.7 Modified/calibre 0.6.3.7.app/Contents/Resources/Python/site-packages/calibre/gui2 which had no effect.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions for me? If you tell me I'm in way over my head, I'll understand ;o)

Janet