Calibre 0.7.22 saves files differently

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

...I am old and stubborn enough to want my book titles to appear the way I entered them...Helen

And you are not alone.

I was going batty with the A and the The at the end after a comma. Also sorting by title and seeing "The Cat" up under C drove me up the wall. It's all fixed and warm-fuzzy now.

[pennylane]

@ pghaworth:

much clearer now - thanks for your help

@ chaley:

sounds interesting - I may try your suggestion as well - thanks

[Selzernium]

Originally Posted by chaley

Uhhhh... Why do that? Why not set the tweak and let calibre do it? That way, the title_sort value has what you want in it. I suppose that if you have a lot of books and don't want to do the 'forced update' bit described below, then this approach works.

@pghaworth: changing the tweak doesn't change the values in the database. You need to force calibre to do an update to the metadata of every book. There are three general ways to do that.


3) If your author_sort values are all computed from the author values, then you can force the recomputation in one step by selecting all your books, hitting 'E' to get to bulk metadata edit, checking the 'Automatically set author sort' box, and pressing OK. Calibre will change the author sort to what it already is, recomputing the title sort in the process. This is what I would do.

Hi chaley
If I try to do as above the calibre library view shows the Author sort LN, FN contarary the way i want! that is it inverts*
Unless I misunderstood you or missing something obvious....

My author field is FN LN
And I want my Author sort field to be the same as my Author(s) field i.e. FN LN.

What should I do to rectify this?


I am on Win7 x64, Calibre v0.7.23

*) My tweaks are :

# The algorithm used to copy author to author_sort
# Possible values are:
#  invert: use "fn ln" -> "ln, fn" (the original algorithm)
#  copy  : copy author to author_sort without modification
#  comma : use 'copy' if there is a ',' in the name, otherwise use 'invert'
author_sort_copy_method = 'copy'

# Set whether boolean custom columns are two- or three-valued.
#  Two-values for true booleans
#  three-values for yes/no/unknown
# Set to 'yes' for three-values, 'no' for two-values
bool_custom_columns_are_tristate = 'yes'

# Control title and series sorting in the library view.
# If set to 'library_order', Leading articles such as The and A will be ignored.
# If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted without processing
# For example, with library_order, The Client will sort under 'C'. With
# strictly_alphabetic, the book will sort under 'T'.
# This flag affects Calibre's library display. It has no effect on devices. In
# addition, titles for books added before changing the flag will retain their
# order until the title is edited. Double-clicking on a title and hitting return
# without changing anything is sufficient to change the sort.
title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'

# Control how title and series names are formatted when saving to disk/sending
# to device. If set to library_order, leading articles such as The and A will
# be put at the end
# If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted without processing
# For example, with library_order, "The Client" will become "Client, The". With
# strictly_alphabetic, it would remain "The Client".
save_template_title_series_sorting = 'strictly_alphabetic'

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Selzernium

Unless I misunderstood you or missing something obvious....

My author field is FN LN
And I want my Author sort field to be the same as my Author(s) field i.e. FN LN.

What should I do to rectify this?

The instructions you quoted were for recomputing title_sort, not author_sort.

Given that you have already changed the tweak, recomputing author_sort is done by:
- right-click on any author in the left-hand tag browser
- choose 'manage authors'
- push the 'recalculate all author sort values', button
- press OK.

[Selzernium]

Correct! re the instructions, but i wanted to rectify the title_sort and there was a tweak...little knowledge being dangerous eh.

Anyway your instructions worked flawlessly thank you. And now all is well in this best of all possible worlds...