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[Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for the patch. However, you can achieve this cleanup and many others already by using the Search and replace facility in the Bulk metadata edit dialog.

See http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/metadata.html#search-and-replace

Kovid.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:28:09PM +0000, Bartosz Szatkowski wrote:
> Hi,
> i had lot of books with flipped author field, in format <author
> lastname>, <author names> eg Salvatore, R. A. so all ebook collection
> was in mess (books were sorted by author name not last name).
> I wrote mechanism to clean name Salvatore, R.A -> R. A. Salvatore, for
> now its don't modify multiple author fields and other "messy" ones (so
> its more or less safe)
> 
> I am not sure about proposed UI, please let me know if i have to change it.
> If You consider my changes useful or have some suggestions please let
> me know too.
> Im going to work on more sophisticated cleaning mechanism (eg multiple
> authors handling) and "auto author sort" in the future.
> 
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