How do others manage authors with Jr., Dr., etc in their name?

LadyKate · 11-05-2016, 03:35 PM

I'm sure I've seen this and maybe even asked this some time a few years back but as I edit yet another Jr. out of an author's name find myself wondering is best to handle this.

It is a pain to look under authors M and not find L. E. Modesitt Jr. listed. So... I remove the Jr.

How do others handle this? I also remove Dr as it isn't actually part of the name, but part of the title.

Has anyone figures out a better way to handle this. I know I sometimes do wish for a better way to handle all the "de Something" and "Someone Jr." or "St. Someone" names. With electronic books here to stay and it not just Calibre that has to handle all the names of that type when it comes to sorting and displaying in order, you would think an electronic library "system of handling" would be out there somewhere.

theducks · 11-05-2016, 03:48 PM

Have you changed the Tweak?: # Author sort name algorithm

Modesitt is right there in the M's for me

(my author_sort is Ln, Fn)

ekbell · 11-05-2016, 08:59 PM

I've taken the lazy way out and simply stuck items to be ignored when sorting into brackets. It looks better for (editor) or (translator) then (Jr.) but it works.

dwig · 11-05-2016, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Have you changed the Tweak?: # Author sort name algorithm

Modesitt is right there in the M's for me

(my author_sort is Ln, Fn)

Same here, except they're listed as "L. E. Modesitt, Jr." (with the comma).

I've edited the tweak significantly to add a range of suffixes (e.g. PhD, Pere, Fils, ...) that aren't there by default.

LadyKate · 11-11-2016, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Have you changed the Tweak?: # Author sort name algorithm

Modesitt is right there in the M's for me

(my author_sort is Ln, Fn)

Ummm, I admit, I hadn't played with the tweaks. You are right. Now to go through and fix all those I killed the Jr.'s on. I don't know what I did that had them sorting weird before.

11-05-2016, 03:35 PM	#1
LadyKate Fanatic Posts: 515 Karma: 1470724 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Quebec CA Device: android 4 (samsung tablet and asus tablet)	How do others manage authors with Jr., Dr., etc in their name? I'm sure I've seen this and maybe even asked this some time a few years back but as I edit yet another Jr. out of an author's name find myself wondering is best to handle this. It is a pain to look under authors M and not find L. E. Modesitt Jr. listed. So... I remove the Jr. How do others handle this? I also remove Dr as it isn't actually part of the name, but part of the title. Has anyone figures out a better way to handle this. I know I sometimes do wish for a better way to handle all the "de Something" and "Someone Jr." or "St. Someone" names. With electronic books here to stay and it not just Calibre that has to handle all the names of that type when it comes to sorting and displaying in order, you would think an electronic library "system of handling" would be out there somewhere.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,047 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Have you changed the Tweak?: # Author sort name algorithm Modesitt is right there in the M's for me (my author_sort is Ln, Fn)

11-05-2016, 08:59 PM	#3
ekbell Guru Posts: 627 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Canada Device: none	I've taken the lazy way out and simply stuck items to be ignored when sorting into brackets. It looks better for (editor) or (translator) then (Jr.) but it works.

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