Sorting compound names

[Robert Brenstein]

>On 9/22/04 12:39 AM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
>
>>  What these folks want is the ability to alter record sorting so that
>>  it ignores prefixes in surnames. This is apparently standard in
>>  German, Swedish, Dutch, and no doubt other languages.
>>
>>  I don't know of open source dbs that do this, but as I said, EndNote
>>  (a competitor of mine) lets you create a list of words that are to be
>>  ignored when sorting names (e.g. von, van, de, etc.). Papyrus (a now
>>  defunct ex-competitor) allows "German sorting rules", which did much
>>  the same. This approach, to provide this sort of sort as an option,
>>  should satisfy most folks who want this feature I think.
>
>Look,
>
>We can try implement in 2.0 for fields with IndexByWords
>The option
>
>1) min length of words to index
>    
>     e.g. 3
>
>     then words: and or a the
>     will not go into index at all

This option may be handy to have but may not be useful for Jon since 
2- and 3-char last names are not so unusual.

>2) List of ignore words.
>
>So if record is
>    
>     von XXXXXX
>
>Then into index will go only XXXX part.

Nifty option. However, how will IndexByWords handle last names that 
are two words, like

a) with hyphen: smith-barnes
b) no hyphen: capistano moruende

Robert