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According to MLA, if the same person listed in a bibliographic entry has more than one role, those roles should be listed together. This usually takes the form "Kyle Matthews, ed. and trans." Am I correct that the only ways to do this in Bookends are to edit the generated bibliography manually, or to define a separate user field for when the editor(s) and translator(s) is/are the same person/people?

Bookends can't infer different roles. You have to make them explicit. You can to this in the reference itself, then modify the format so that it outputs both (if present).

Jon
Sonny Software