Ampersand in Author Name

[toomuchreading]

I'm hoping I can get some help with this. I store a wide variety of books and old vintage knitting patterns in my library. Some of the really old stuff only has company names which contain "&", therefore breaking up the name. I've tried using "and" which still breaks up the name of the company. I don't really want to leave just a space, because then it's harder to understand the company name. Can anyone suggest some ways I can still enter the company name as author? My search foo, which usually works is failing me today. Thanks

[ownedbycats]

Try one of the Unicode ampersand variants (e.g. U+FE60 or U+FF06), though it'll look a bit weird.

These days I just use a plus sign because it's easier.

[toomuchreading]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

These days I just use a plus sign because it's easier.

When your brain gets in a rut, it really goes there big time! The simplest solutions are always the best.


Thanks for the help.

[Quoth]

Using + instead of & can be good.
Or if you read Irish or Hebrew you can use a 7, which if you squint looks like the character used instead of & in those languages. Irish does use the Roman-Latin alphabet, but not &. The & is actually et, Latin for and.

Traditionally in English, when spelling aloud, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself ("A", "I", and, "O") was prefixed with the Latin expression per se ('by itself'), as in "per se A". It was also common practice to add the & sign at the end of the alphabet as if it were the 27th letter, pronounced as the Latin et or later in English as and. As a result, the recitation of the alphabet would end in "X, Y, Z, and per se and". This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" and the term had entered common English usage by 1837

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

In Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the character ⁊ is used in place of the ampersand. This character is a survival of Tironian notes, a medieval shorthand system. This character is known as the Tironian Et in English, the agus in Irish, and the agusan in Scottish Gaelic.

I think Hebrew uses the letter "Vav", which like the Irish symbol looks a little like a 7 in some fonts, as "and", even without the extra marks.

[un_pogaz]

"Preference > Tweaks > Split multiple author names" and set the setting to

authors_split_regex = ''

This option identifies certain words in author names (like 'and' & 'with') and transforms them into & (and thus splits the 2 authors).
By modifying this option, you could extend it to other words or disable it, so you could freely use 'and' in your authors names.

[toomuchreading]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

"Preference > Tweaks > Split multiple author names" and set the setting to

authors_split_regex = ''

This option identifies certain words in author names (like 'and' & 'with') and transforms them into & (and thus splits the 2 authors).
By modifying this option, you could extend it to other words or disable it, so you could freely use 'and' in your authors names.

for pointing out the Tweak. I never thought to look to see if one was available. It never ceases to amaze me how flexible Kovid has made Calibre with the help of everyone else.