author_name_copywords being ignored? (Calibre 9.2.1)

mneimeyer · 02-08-2026, 11:51 PM

I might have messed something up but it appears that Calibre is ignoring the author_name_copywords tweak.

I have it set as below but "Mojang AB" is still being set to an author_sort of "AB, Mojang". Additionally sheet music that has Chorus or Choruses in the Author are ending up "Chorus, Somecity Somegroup".

I did "Apply changes to this tweak", Apply the entire tweaks dialog and then allow Calibre to restart.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Quote:

author_name_copywords = ['AB',
'Agency',
'Chorus',
'Choruses',
'Club',
'Corporation',
'Company',
'Co.',
'Council',
'Committee',
'Entertainment',
'Games',
'Group',
'Inc.',
'Institute',
'LLC',
'Media',
'National',
'Society',
'Software',
'Team',
'Studios']

kovidgoyal · 02-10-2026, 12:50 AM

If you go back to the tweaks preferences, is your change there?

mneimeyer · 02-10-2026, 10:18 AM

Yup. I was even messing around and changed the [] to () the way author_name_prefixes is and it changed it back to [] on restarting. So it's seeing the data for the tweak but it's ignoring it. I also double checked spelling and casing on the chance it was case sensitive and authors containing the exact items in the list are still getting "FN LN" to "LN, FN" treatment.

If it helps any this installation of Calibre is less than a week old and wasn't upgraded from my previous older Calibre (which was 2 or 3 computers ago at this point). I hadn't used Calibre in long enough that I started from scratch.

Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 02-11-2026, 12:05 AM

Works for me steps I tried
1) Preferences->Tweaks add 'AB' to the list of copy words after agency.
2) Restart calibre
3) Edit a book
4) Change author to Mojang AB and click the auto create authro sort button
5) author sort is mojang AB as expected.

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02-10-2026, 12:50 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,991 Karma: 29579720 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If you go back to the tweaks preferences, is your change there?

02-10-2026, 10:18 AM	#3
mneimeyer Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Claymont, DE Device: Boox Note Air 5C / Moon+	Yup. I was even messing around and changed the [] to () the way author_name_prefixes is and it changed it back to [] on restarting. So it's seeing the data for the tweak but it's ignoring it. I also double checked spelling and casing on the chance it was case sensitive and authors containing the exact items in the list are still getting "FN LN" to "LN, FN" treatment. If it helps any this installation of Calibre is less than a week old and wasn't upgraded from my previous older Calibre (which was 2 or 3 computers ago at this point). I hadn't used Calibre in long enough that I started from scratch. Thanks!

02-11-2026, 12:05 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,991 Karma: 29579720 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Works for me steps I tried 1) Preferences->Tweaks add 'AB' to the list of copy words after agency. 2) Restart calibre 3) Edit a book 4) Change author to Mojang AB and click the auto create authro sort button 5) author sort is mojang AB as expected.