a bit of help on a template, please?

[bulldogmo]

Have a ton of books down by one main author with others co-writing. I want to save under the main author's name but keep the co-writers in a sub directory.

This is what I am using to save currently:

{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title}


Example of what I am meaning:

Crispin, A. C_
Crispin, A. C. & O'Malley, Kathleen

Those are two directories. Both have books in the same series so i want the following:

Crispin, A. C\Crispin, A. C. & O'Malley, Kathleen

So how do I just get the first author's name to be listed?

[chaley]

You can extract the first author from author_sort using this template:

{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}

It isn't clear from your description whether you want to add that to your template or replace the first piece ({author_sort[0]}).

[bulldogmo]

Thank you, it is going to replace the author_sort in anew template that is in a list that I keep so I can copy the different ones depending on the books.

Again thank you.