On 28-Jun-99 Werner Icking wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:06:41 +0100 (BST)
>> From: Chris Sawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> On 22-Jun-99 Werner Icking wrote:
>>
>> > Next problem :-)
>> >
>> > Åhlström, Olof like A, after A
>> > Beethoven, Ludwig van B or V
>> > Du Mage, Pierre D or M
>> > [Prilipp-]Schubert, Camille P or S
>> > Van Durme, Oscar V or D
>> > Westhoff, Johann-Paul von V or W
>> > Åhlström, Olof after Z
>> >
>> > all from GMD's Music Archive ;-)
>>
>> This needs the person in charge of the archive to make an executive
>> decision if any music is submitted by these composers. And as that
>> person is (will be) me, this is what I think. Remember that we're
>> only talking about the names of the directories here, hardly a major
>> point :-)
>
> Maybe we are talking about presenting search results, too.
A good point.
> [...]
>> o I have already stated somewhere that as far as the sort mechanism
>> (yet to be written!) of Mutopia is concerned, "van", "du", etc. will
>> be treated as a middle name and the surname will be taken as the last
>> word if the person's name is written out in full. No one would look
>> under V for Beethoven.
>
> That's ok. But I was said that no one would look under D for Van
> Durme or
> under M for Du Mage.
For the directories this is not a problem as I can easily put in
symbolic links so that either DuMageP or MagePD will both go to the
same place. I guess it would be sensible in the search results for at
the end of the Ds have a link saying that results turned up for Du Mage
and taking you to M if you click on it.
> I asked those who delivered the editions where to sort it. I did it
> not for Åhlström. So I sorted it badly to "A".
>
>> o I've never heard of Camille Prilipp-Schubert but I don't see what
>> the problem is with using P.
>
> The true name is Schubert. Prilipp is normally not used. So it's
> sorted under S and the directory is named "schubertc" :-)
This is a special case which we'll worry about when we come to it :-)
possibly using a similar method as above (filing under P but having a
link from S).
Chris
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