Quote:
Originally Posted by mores
I realize it is possible to solve the issue of author sorting by messing with the way I enter a name - but I don't want to  |
Fair enough.
Quote:
But back to the original question, my question  : Does anyone else agree that there should be a way to handle "secondary" sorting?
|
To be sure that I understand your question...
Calibre today handles secondary sorting while running. As you point out, clicking on pubdate, then clicking on author, shows you what you want.
When Calibre starts, it sorts on the last column used, but does not remember any of the previous sorts. In your case, this seems to be author. This first sort, and only this first sort, calibre 'for free' automatically uses title as the secondary sort, meaning that books are sorted by title within whatever column you last used. I think that what you are asking for is to have calibre use pubdate instead of title for this 'free' secondary sort.
To generalize slightly while repeating myself:
Alternative 1: you are asking for the ability to set the column used as the secondary sort when calibre starts. If you set this column to rating and last sorted on pubdate, then when calibre starts you would get rating within pubdate.
Alternative 2: you could be asking that calibre remember the last 2 (or N) sorts, and reproduce these upon start up.
Alternative 3: you could be asking to be able to set the primary and secondary sort columns to be used when calibre starts. Calibre would ignore the saved search.
The first and third are easier to implement, but that doesn't affect what you want. It might, however, affect what you will accept.
The best thing for you to do is to file an enhancement 'ticket' specifying what you want. That would start the approval debate and, eventually, the implementation process.