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inukshuk
combining editor and author in alphabetical order
Apologies if this is super easy or was covered before. I've been searching for an answer through the docs and issues, and testing it out for about 3 hours with no luck. I'm trying to build a bibliography of about ~1300 entries—all the secondary sources on 1 particular poet. Many of the books have no authors, just volume editors or editor. The resulting biblios trying different permutations of sort_by don't work to make sure that the list is ordered in alphabetical order of the person (editor or author) listed as the lead. For example, if I use sort_by: author I get editors on top of authors. If I use sort_by: author, editor with order: ascending, ascending I still get the same.
In the end, I need an MLA valid bibliography, which requires people to be listed alphabetically, regardless of whether they are the author or the editor. I'm using modern-language-association.csl, of course.
Did I miss something super basic, or is this ultimately not possible right now?
On a related note, is there a way to flag order per page, rather than it being universal? Is that in the cue?
It's likely not implemented in the current sort functionality. I'd suggest that we define a special sort field called name which combines authors and editors for sorting purposes.
I like this idea. I'll take a look in the summer, once the semester madness is over, and see if I can get it working.
Thank you @p3palazzo for the reminder! In 2018 I was not using a reminder app, so this one fell through the cracks. Now nothing is forgotten. I just added it to my reminders. Will now see if I can squeeze it in in the next couple of months, or give up the towel in September.