Templates: various questions not worth their own thread

[Katja_hbg]

Originally Posted by Katja_hbg

{#author_book_count:'first_matching_cmp(1,$,'books ','book')'}

Solved: I will use the numeric value of author_book_count.
Still strange what happened but the following works well:
{#abc_numeric:'first_matching_cmp(1,$,'books','boo k')'}