Sorting compound names // sense

[jda]

>On 9/22/04 4:23 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
>
>>  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
>
>
>In fact it is very very strange to me SORT IN THIS WAY.
>
>It looks to me useless as useless to sort email letters by their context.
>

No, no, no.

Rules for sorting in German/Swedish/Dutch are not the same as 
English. They don't treat the "von" as part of the last name. I don't 
make these rules, Ruslan, they are simply the custom. Do not forget, 
the results of the search/sort will be a bibliographic list, like 
this:

1. Zasukhin, R, Brenstein, R, von Abel, GE (2004). A title. 23:23-24.

2. Zasukhin, R, Brenstein, R, Bethany, D (2002). Another title. 2:145-160.

3. Etc.


Jon