Sorting compound names

[jda]

>  > 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?
>

No, Ruslan. I wrote:

>" 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).

The authors field of *one* record might be

Zasukhin, R
Brenstein, R
von Abel, GE

The the authors of this record will be compared to the authors of 
every other record. In this particular instance, I would want this 
record to sort *before* another record with these authors:

Zasukhin, R
Brenstein, R
Bethany, D

Jon