#491 Alphabetical Biblio page doesn't always show collaborators

[Ahasuerus]

Alphabetical Biblio page doesn't always show collaborators. This happens because it has been fixed to show VTs, but the logic that retrieves collaborators doesn't look at VTs' collaborators.

2019-05-27 update, reported by JLaTondre:

Take a look at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ae.cgi?132509 this page]. The alphabetical bibliography lists variants separately (which I can understand if the variant has a different title), but it doesn't handle the author name correctly. For the fiction, it is saying "with Sandra Odell" and for the interviews "co-interviewer Sandra Odell" instead of "as by" like the chronological listing. In an ideal world, if the parent and the variant are the same title, it should list it once and the show the author as "only as by" or "also as by". If that's too hard, it should still use "as by" vs. implying it's a different author (in this case, it's pretty clear, but wouldn't be with a true pseudonym).

[Uzume]

Right now, I do not see ae.cgi (alpha) handling VTs at all (except to display VTs on another line as if they are a normal title entry).

I believe, ae.cgi (alpha) and ch.cgi (chrono) should display the same thing with just different sort orders, so why not merge these into a single page parametrized by sort type? Sort order (ascending vs. descending) could also be added.

It might also be possible to merge (or at least partially share significant code) with ea.cgi (default author/contributor), as that should contain the same information (same VT/translation display handling) grouped and sorted by title series (currently it falls back to chrono ordering for cases not affected by title series, i.e., titles not in a series or without a series number).

[Uzume]

Perhaps the solution is to merge these different author views into a single CGI with different sort criteria to help with code maintenance issues like these (or optionally leverage the code into libraries)