11-20-2017, 11:16 AM | #1 |
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How to name institutions as authors (i.e. NO name division')
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It seems to me that Calibre always assumes that 'author' is a physical person and applies divisions of names (e.g. "Black & Decker" becomes "Decker, Black"). For institutions and corporations, this makes no sense and differs from standards (see for instance examples 3 and 4 in this citation guide). Do anyone have any idea how I can impose correct naming standards in my Calibre library? If this is currently not easily possible then I suggest a feature whereby - for instance, single quotation marks around a name - will treat it as an institution/corporation. Thanks! |
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That overrides The Author (In the MDE, that only applies to the title) |
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11-20-2017, 05:16 PM | #3 |
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A little creativity applied to Preferences > Tweaks for author sorts and author names might be of some use. Afterwards, use Mass Edit to update all author sorts. It might be prudent to do the testing in a temporary library until you are satisfied with your results. Remember, however, that Preferences are usually Calibre-wide, and not library specific.
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Thanks for the responses.
Modifying Author sort does the trick for several publications I have. However, Calibre doesn't allow the Author field to include the ampersand "&". When trying to change the Author to "Black & Decker" I get the error: Author names cannot contain & characters Doing multiple edits in one go, results in a similar error. As already suggested in my first mail, it would seem that the Author field was perceived thinking it would always be a physical person. This should be changed, since it prevents proper inclusion in Calibre of publications from the multitude of organizations that have included "&" in their name. |
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I think that you are not going to get anywhere with that request as the use of ‘&’ to separate author names is embedded too deeply into the Calibre core code.
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BLACK+DECKER Inc is the correct name per their web site. No ampersand.
The Tweak has a list of keywords that force a name to be copied as-is to the sort. Corporation is one. You could supplement that list. However, you will have to use the legal names and not shortcut abbreviations. Last edited by DaltonST; 11-23-2017 at 05:49 AM. |
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I have 18 publications from this company and it's decided to use an ampersand in the publisher name on each one of them. Perhaps you could sue them? |
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Not realizing that some common symbols would be used as controls. Maybe you could sue them for their faulty crystal balls. |
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Unfortunately, the use of ampersand is, like itimpi stated, probably "embedded too deeply into the Calibre core code". This doesn't take away from me that Calibre is an excellent app and I congratulate Kovid Goyal and everyone else who has contributed to it |
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11-28-2017, 04:26 AM | #10 |
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This is the problem for a decision that Kovid had to take and with what we need to accept this behavior. I can understand that you are not happy with it, but that's how it is working now.
For me this is not a big deal as we all need to make from time to time some compromises. If you like, check out this possible work around: Use the field author_sort for including an ampersand within of an authors name. This is how I do it (as we have in our language as well a lot of old little companies including this character in their names). For the field author you can maybe take a plus or nothing or whatever you like to choose as 'your common synonym' for a ampersand within a author name. |
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