From 0cf432315be56ff8b75e98a167411fc3308c4b2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:31:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ... --- src/calibre/manual/faq.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst b/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst index 9c02ace0e8..cdae20ea3b 100644 --- a/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst +++ b/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst @@ -327,12 +327,14 @@ Now coming to author name sorting: * Authors in the Tag Browser are sorted by the sort value for the **authors**. Remember that this is different from the Author sort field for a book. * By default, this sort algorithm assumes that the author name is in ``First name Last name`` format and generates a ``Last name, First name`` sort value. * You can change this algorithm by going to Preferences->Tweaks and setting the :guilabel:`author_sort_copy_method` tweak. - * You can force |app| to recalculate the author sort values for every author by right clicking on any author and selecting :guilabel:`Manage authors` - * You can force |app| to recalculate the author sort values for all books by using the bulk metadata edit dialog (select all books and click edit metadata) - * When recalculating the author sort values for books, |app| uses the author sort values for each individual author. + * You can force |app| to recalculate the author sort values for every author by right clicking on any author and selecting :guilabel:`Manage authors`, then pushing the `Recalculate all author sort values` button. Do this after you have set the author_sort_copy_method tweak to what you want. + * You can force |app| to recalculate the author sort values for all books by using the bulk metadata edit dialog (select all books and click edit metadata, check the `Automatically set author sort` checkbox, then press OK.) + * When recalculating the author sort values for books, |app| uses the author sort values for each individual author. Therefore, ensure that the individual author sort values are correct before recalculating the books' author sort values. * You can control whether the Tag Browser display authors using their names or their sort values by setting the :guilabel:`categories_use_field_for_author_name` tweak in Preferences->Tweaks -With all this flexibility, it is possible to have |app| manage your author names however you like. For example, one common request is to have |app| display author names LN, FN. To do this first set the ``author_sort_copy_method`` to ``copy``. Then change all author names to LN, FN via the Manage authors dialog. Then have |app| recalculate author sort values as described above. +With all this flexibility, it is possible to have |app| manage your author names however you like. For example, one common request is to have |app| display author names LN, FN. To do this first set the ``author_sort_copy_method`` to ``copy``. Then change all author names to LN, FN via the Manage authors dialog. Then have |app| recalculate author sort values for both authors and books as described above. + +Note that you can set an individual author's sort value to whatever you want using :guilabel:`Manage authors`. This is useful when dealing with names that |app| will not get right, such as complex multi-part names like Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra or when dealing with Asian names like Sun Tzu. Why doesn't |app| let me store books in my own directory structure?