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How to get calibre directory to list books not authors
How to get calibre directory to list books not authors










Note, of course, that the presence or absence of a human-readable separator has no impact on sorting as long as you are consistent about it. However, don't use any other separator (assuming an English language catalog). It's considered good form to make the line/field human readable by separating either with 'and' or '&', but this is not strictly required. For this purpose, place each in the line or field 'most important' first (thus authors ahead of editors). Placing multiple authors or editors or whatever so that the entire combination sorts correctly.A good, non-controversial set of rules for this is Individual names, with titles and epithets and such.To deal with multiple authors in a single sort field, where the goal is to make lexicographic sorting 'do the right thing' you have two separate issues: Anyway, after some discussion with my library science professor friend, I have the following information: #3 Xenophon 09-25-2008, 11:31 AMSorry to be slow getting back to this thread, but life has intervened. of Library Science and see what she has to say.

how to get calibre directory to list books not authors

Now that I think of it, I'll forward this post to a friend who is a Prof.

HOW TO GET CALIBRE DIRECTORY TO LIST BOOKS NOT AUTHORS HOW TO

I suggested that it might be worth asking a librarian if there is a standard for how to do this. Possibly arbitrary combinations of the above.Author (or multiple authors) along with editor who should be shown.multiple unrelated authors (w or w/o titles.Single author, with or without titles, suffixes, epithets ( e.g."The Great") and so on.Here's my try at enumerating cases - with the caveat that I am not trying to show anything about how they should be represented in Calibre or in the user-visible view I'm only trying to list 'em! although 'right way' might be better written as 'least bad way' given all the issues) The question at hand is "What's the right way to represent multiple authors in the author field in Calibre?" (. Regarding the multiple author stuff, can someone start a new thread for it and we can discuss it and come up with the best solution.Here's the thread!










How to get calibre directory to list books not authors