Templates: various questions not worth their own thread

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Originally Posted by YGKGamer

Is it possible to create a template that can be used to do the following when importing books:
1. Ensure that author is always = last name, first name (title case)

This one is not really doable. Too many exceptions. L. Sprague de Camp for instance would be de Camp, L. Sprague while Marissa de Fontaine would be Fontaine, Marissa de, Alexandre Dumas père and Alexandre Dumas fils, Ludwig van Beethoven is sorted as Beethoven, Ludwig van. You can handle about 90% of the author names automatically but the remainder will be a pain as you start setting up exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions.