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More problems with the way the authors list treats comma:
I have some books by authors with names like "Walter M. Miller Jr." and "James Tiptree, Jr."
If there is a comma followed by an ordinary space in the name then the authors list treats the part following the comma as a separate author, so "James Tiptree, Jr." is treated as two different authors, one named "James Tiptree" and another named "Jr."
But this can be worked-around: if there is a no-break space (U+00A0) after the comma then it is treated as one author "James Tipree, Jr."
Unfortunately, even with the no-break space, the names are incorrectly sorted under J for "Jr" instead of M for "Miller Jr." and T for "Tiptree, Jr."
The only way to get these sort of names to sort correctly in the authors list seems to be to use a comma and remove the space altogether, i.e. change the names to "Walter M. Miller,Jr." and "James Tiptree,Jr." but that looks a bit naff.
(The author sort in the books list doesn't have this problem because it recognises "Jr." as a name suffix and ignores it when sorthing by author.)
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