Suppress the display of canonical titles in the Contents section of the Publication screen if and only if:
* The VT is a Serial and the canonical title is a Novel or Shortfiction
* The authors of the two Titles are identical
* The titles are also identical up to the first left parenthesis
Also change "aka" to "book publication as" when the VT is a Serial and the canonical title is a Novel. Come to think of it, a similar approach may also work for placeholder Serials that started this discussion.
Anonymous
Coded in pl.py 1.19 except that the display of the Novel/Shortfiction VT is suppressed even if the VT author(s) are different. Implemented in r2009-28.