#100 Naming Error for Surnames with Spaces

[Danny Weltman]

I'm entering a work where one of the editors is named Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch. Hypernomicon wants the file name to include "Schmidt and am and Busch" etc.

[Jason Winning]

You must have set the within-component separator to " and ". The within-component separator is supposed to be set to things like space, underscore, or nothing (those are the ones I've seen in real life anyway). Here are examples where there are 3 authors, last names Smith, Jones, and Nguyen.
Space example: "Smith Jones Nguyen 2026 Cool Paper Title"
Underscore example: "Smith_Jones_Nguyen_2026_Cool_Paper_Title"
Nothing example: "SmithJonesNguyen2026CoolPaperTitle"
If you set it to " and " then you would have:
"Smith and Jones and Nguyen 2026 Cool and Paper and Title"

Notice the "and"s that were added between every author and to the title: not good.

So this is not a bug; the feature is working as intended.

Are you wanting a final conjunction symbol setting for authors so you could have one of these:
"Smith Jones and Nguyen 2026 Cool Paper Title"
"Smith Jones & Nguyen 2026 Cool Paper Title"
I'm not sure I've ever seen those used in filenames before.

[Danny Weltman]

I thought the "within component" separator is supposed to separate different authors from each other. But this one is separating the same author from himself two times!

[Jason Winning]

Think about it this way. Some people don't want spaces in their filenames, they want underscores. Other people don't want spaces or underscores, they would rather have neither. That's what the setting is for. It's not intended to be an author separator. An author separator feature would be a new feature request.