Dealing with punctuation in Formats Manager

[joseph_anton]

I have added a couple of extra fields for books, such as "Translated by" and "Other Contributors". I am trouble figuring out how to suppress the punctuation around these fields if they are empty. From my reading of the manual, it looks like a tilde around the punctuation should be enough to suppress it, but this doesn't seem to be working for me. Here's what my Field Order looks like at present:

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a. t., $translated by $u3~,~ u4~,~ l: u, d, u20`.`

[Jon]

Better off avoiding the tilde (which is there for backward compatability). I'd stick with the $ quote and/or conditional groups, both of which are easier to understand. Off the top of my head (you can modify as needed):

a. t., $translated by $u3, u4, l: u, d, u20`.`

Jon
Sonny Software