:nyt being "authors-editors-date-title" is misleading

[nathanaelbosch]

I tried to get entries sorted by author-year-title, but the :nyt leads to an unexpected behaviour, that I'm still trying to properly understand. One part of this is that the sorting includes editors, which I did not expect at all. Maybe we should have separate sortings for these so that the user can choose if editors should be included or not?

For context: I'm trying to add a bibliography to my docs with DocumenterCitations.jl, but right now I'm failing to get the order right.

[nathanaelbosch]

I'm still not so sure what the sorting does exactly, but it also seems that "authors" means that the sorting is according to all authors, not just the first author. I think biblatex's nyt only considers first authors (not 100% sure though as I could not find an explicit explanation in the biblatex docs), and in this case I think the nyt setting here should behave the same as biblatex's.

EDIT: I was wrong; biblatex's nyt does indeed consider multiple authors.

[Azzaare]

Thank you for reporting the issue.

The remark on editors is on spot. I will try to make it an opt-in option.