From e111ac413a4a262e13421326b24192aacec4c7c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:15:26 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #855070 (Article plus punctuation creates bad title sort)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
index 07fae187ba..dd90b4c2ec 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ def title_sort(title, order=None):
     if match:
         prep = match.group(1)
         title = title[len(prep):] + ', ' + prep
+        if title[0] in _ignore_starts:
+            title = title[1:]
     return title.strip()
 
 coding = zip(