Sorting compound names

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/22/04 3:55 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

> In sorting a list of records for a bibliography, one may want to sort
> first by author (with or without considering name prefixes) and then
> by date -- in fact, this is quite common. What I output is not just
> the names, but a whole citation (e.g. Brenstein, R (2004) Posts to
> the Valentina list. 45:1-3). Each element I have listed here (author,
> date, title, volume, pages, and more is kept in a different indexed
> field and assembled to yield the citation above).
> 
> Being able to ignore words on a search would be cool, but what I need
> to do is to ignore them on a *sort*. For example, to yield this sort
> order (German sort, by author,date):
> 
> von Allen, G (2003) Whatever. 2:34-35.
> 
> Brenstein, R (2004) Posts to the Valentina list. 45:1-3

This is value of ONE field ????

If yes -- problems

If no, then what is in lastName here?


> Note that von Allen sorts before Brenstein because von is ignored.
> 
> So, Ruslan, if you are saying it would be possible to specify a list
> of words to ignore in a sort, that would do the trick.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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