Kay-
> In a book store I'm likely only to find a book that I didn't intend to
> find
rotfl
Good points all.
> World's Biggest Bookstore" - it wasn't, eaten at "The Worlds Best Deli",
> it
Completely OT by now: on a cross-country trip some years ago we made a game
out of all the billboards an
fairly perilous authority to cite
in a forum dependent on precision
So one's advice would have to be, whatever you do, try not to compilate or
revolutionize any of your code, and do especially avoid revolutionicating or
compilicizing it!
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Mark Wieder wrote:
"Unless I misread things here, Richmond and I are just
bantering about some antics. No need to get pushed out
of shape."
Exactly right!
A word of advice to Eric Chatonet et al:
I have spent the greater part of my adult life in
countries where English is not the dominant langu
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Richmond Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> ALPHABETICISATION
>
> http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2006/rigby.html
>
> My poor command of the English language is picked up by a 75% Scot who
refers to an article
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Closed stacks
> and computerized searches are the antithesis of this phenomenon.
>
Point taken. On the other hand isn't your case of surfing the web the
current ultimate example. In a book store I'm likely only to find a bo
Friends,
I can't make sense of this thread, but everyone here knows that I
can't spell and learned all my english by watching the power puf girls
on cartoon network. As for alphabetizing, all I know is that "A" comes
first and this is why the teacher always shouted my name before
shouting everyone
Jacque-
rotfl.
I had half a value once. It's gone now. I think it rolled under the table
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ightest whim, and am completely sympathetic to the obviousity of
the definition of "alphabeticisation". But I don't (usually) claim that they
can be found in dictionaries unless I think I can bluff my way through it.
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As long as we're having fun with this thread, I'm surprised no one
offered the obvious solution:
on Alphabeticize @pData
sort lines of pData
end Alphabeticize
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Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond and I are just bantering about some antics.
Oh, I can't resist. Here are the best fighting words I ever wrote. I've
been saving them up in case I ever needed them again:
Why you, you...variable, you. If I had half a value I'd set you. Just
wait until I get my hand
Eric-
Unless I misread things here, Richmond and I are just bantering about some
antics. No need to get pushed out of shape.
Maybe we need to go back to inserting emoticons and smiley faces and other
such nonsense to clutter up our email space for non-English... er...
non-Scots... er... uh-oh..
Bonsoir Richmond, (good evening Richmond),
I have much respect for Mark Wieder since years and more since Malta
2007 Revcon where we met.
He has a real knowledge in many fields and, above all, is great human
being.
He helps many people on this list as soon as he can.
So I can't let you treat
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/barker/frontmatter.html
I would also like to point out that my self-confidence
is such that I don't really feel a need to prop up
alphabeticisation with references from hither and yon.
The construction of the word should be obvious enough
for most n
Kay-
> OK, can we go any further OT ;-)
To bring things back a bit less OT, my point is not about libraries per se,
although physical libraries do manifest the most obvious symptom in daily
life. I have discovered many interesting and surprising books accidentally
by browsing shelves in a libr
Richmond-
> ALPHABETICISATION
> http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2006/rigby.html
Come on, Richmond... surely you can find something more authoritative than
an article in the Australian Humanities Review, no?
Of course, maybe you're just internally trans
> Some dispute about how 'alphabeticisation' is used ? ?
> ?
>
> I use 'alphabeticisation' to mean 'put things in
> alphabetical order'.
I don't know about the dispute, but either 'alphabeticisation' is a very old
word or one that was c
ALPHABETICISATION
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2006/rigby.html
also widely used by Willard van Orman Quine (who was
American).
Some dispute about how 'alphabeticisation' is used ? ?
?
I use 'alphabeticisation' to mean 'put thi
Richmond,
>>>
Of course if one wanted to be b*tchy the fact that [it] occurred to neither
Kay C Lan or myself could be blamed on something to do with the RR
Documentation
<<<
Perhaps we'll add "Alphabeticisation" to the Rev docs when that term appears
in a
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The University of California's Doe Library went to a closed stack
> system some years ago for some obscure bureaucratic reasons. The
> (backhanded
> obligatory Arthur C Clarke reference) serendipity of contextual proximity
> i
RR Documentation:
>
Hey, I don't blame the docs, I blame it purely on my lack of a grasp of the
English language, or if alphabeticisation is a Scottish word, then a lack of
a grasp of the Scottish language ;-)
I just assumed your problem was more complex than just a simple sort.
Those who do
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Bill Marriott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And
>
> sort lines of fld "myListField"
>
> is not useful because?
>
No, just me having too much trouble with the English language. Is
alphabeticise a real word, or is it a real Scottish word ;-) I didn't read
the pro
Richmond-
The problem about Plovdiv is that you have precious
little chance of finding a book in your subject area
of which you have not previously heard.
It's not just Plovdiv. Libraries are going this way in general as
computerized systems replace card catalogs and closed stacks become
standa
Of course if one wanted to be b*tchy the fact that
sort lines of fld "myListField"
occurred to neither Kay C Lan or myself could be
blamed on something to do with the RR Documentation:
I remember having an argument with the chief librarian
at the Ivan Vasov Library here in Plovdiv:
1. At my Un
And
sort lines of fld "myListField"
is not useful because?
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Kay C Lan wrote:
"If you're only trying to convert the first letter of
each line"
Thank you very much.
BUT I'm trying for full alphabeticisation.
Maybe I could use your script recursively ? ? ?
Have to wait til the weekend anyway.
sincerely
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Richmond Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Trying to a alphabeticise a list-field
> and getting nowhere . . .
>
> More details please.
If you're only trying to convert the first letter of each line then:
6 line script, with line numbers
1 put field "listFi
Trying to a alphabeticise a list-field
and getting nowhere . . .
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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