Add options to force author & title values into author_sort and title_sort.

calibre-plugin/config.py

@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ class ConfigWidget(QWidget):
         prefs['updatecover'] = self.basic_tab.updatecover.isChecked()
         prefs['updateepubcover'] = self.basic_tab.updateepubcover.isChecked()
         prefs['keeptags'] = self.basic_tab.keeptags.isChecked()
+        prefs['suppressauthorsort'] = self.basic_tab.suppressauthorsort.isChecked()
+        prefs['suppresstitlesort'] = self.basic_tab.suppresstitlesort.isChecked()
         prefs['showmarked'] = self.basic_tab.showmarked.isChecked()
         prefs['urlsfromclip'] = self.basic_tab.urlsfromclip.isChecked()
         prefs['updatedefault'] = self.basic_tab.updatedefault.isChecked()
@@ -348,6 +350,16 @@ class BasicTab(QWidget):
         self.keeptags.setChecked(prefs['keeptags'])
         self.l.addWidget(self.keeptags)
 
+        self.suppressauthorsort = QCheckBox('Force Author into Author Sort?',self)
+        self.suppressauthorsort.setToolTip("If checked, the author(s) as given will be used for the Author Sort, too.\nIf not checked, calibre will apply it's built in algorithm which makes 'Bob Smith' sort as 'Smith, Bob', etc.")
+        self.suppressauthorsort.setChecked(prefs['suppressauthorsort'])
+        self.l.addWidget(self.suppressauthorsort)
+
+        self.suppresstitlesort = QCheckBox('Force Title into Title Sort?',self)
+        self.suppresstitlesort.setToolTip("If checked, the title as given will be used for the Title Sort, too.\nIf not checked, calibre will apply it's built in algorithm which makes 'The Title' sort as 'Title, The', etc.")
+        self.suppresstitlesort.setChecked(prefs['suppresstitlesort'])
+        self.l.addWidget(self.suppresstitlesort)
+
         self.checkforseriesurlid = QCheckBox("Check for existing Series Anthology books?",self)
         self.checkforseriesurlid.setToolTip("Check for existings Series Anthology books using each new story's series URL before downloading.\nOffer to skip downloading if a Series Anthology is found.")
         self.checkforseriesurlid.setChecked(prefs['checkforseriesurlid'])

calibre-plugin/ffdl_plugin.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from PyQt4.QtCore import QBuffer
 from calibre.constants import numeric_version as calibre_version
 
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile, PersistentTemporaryDirectory, remove_dir
-from calibre.ebooks.metadata import MetaInformation, authors_to_string
+from calibre.ebooks.metadata import MetaInformation
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import get_metadata
 from calibre.gui2 import error_dialog, warning_dialog, question_dialog, info_dialog
 from calibre.gui2.dialogs.message_box import ViewLog
@@ -1606,6 +1606,14 @@ class FanFictionDownLoaderPlugin(InterfaceAction):
 
     def make_mi_from_book(self,book):
         mi = MetaInformation(book['title'],book['author']) # author is a list.
+        if prefs['suppressauthorsort']:
+            # otherwise author names will have calibre's sort algs
+            # applied automatically.
+            mi.author_sort = ' & '.join(book['author'])
+        if prefs['suppresstitlesort']:
+            # otherwise titles will have calibre's sort algs applied
+            # automatically.
+            mi.title_sort = book['title']
         mi.set_identifiers({'url':book['url']})
         mi.publisher = book['publisher']
         mi.tags = book['tags']

calibre-plugin/prefs.py

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ default_prefs['updatemeta'] = True
 default_prefs['updatecover'] = False
 default_prefs['updateepubcover'] = False
 default_prefs['keeptags'] = False
+default_prefs['suppressauthorsort'] = False
+default_prefs['suppresstitlesort'] = False
 default_prefs['showmarked'] = False
 default_prefs['urlsfromclip'] = True
 default_prefs['updatedefault'] = True