The French word for tea is thé with the accent again not something that would be caught by a search for "THE". Generally a good librarian reads the abstract of a book before cataloging it, or at the very least before acquiring it. As I said while you may in fact be able to come up with a few legitimate exceptions, in general the fact that half of all books or even phrases use articles which we would ignore in a sort make a sort tool for librarians that ignores them very useful. When I entered the bug into the Q.A. database I requested that they create an additional sorting mechanism not change their current alpha numeric sort function.
Jason > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:15:36 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [users] Two questions on open office > > On 07/11/2007, Jason Wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:10:53 +0000 > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: users@openoffice.org > > > Subject: Re: [users] Two questions on open office > > > > > > On 06/11/2007, Jason Wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > > I was trained as a Librarian, so I cannot think of a scenario when I > > would > > > > sort a list of phrases or sentences, where I would want to take into > > > > consideration of the articles, nor since I am a linguist can I think > > of a > > > > language which uses its articles as a searchable perameter. If you > > have a > > > > scenario where keeping the articles searchable would be of value, I > > would > > > > most definitely like to learn (thats the problem with being a > > > > librarian/scientist, must always learn something new LOL). > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > > So you'd be happy to file my book "THE DANSANT" under D for "DANSANT" > > would > > > you? > > > > > > > In the original French it would be Le Dansant, and une bibliotechniciane > > francais would also ignore the "Le" so I have no problem ignoring the "THE", > > there are of course going to be exceptions as someone already mentioned "The > > A to Z Guide..." would of course be an exception as would the children's > > alphabet book "A to Z". However fixing those handful of rare exception is > > quicker and far easier than the other option when half or more of all Titles > > begin with an article either "The", "An" or "A". > > > No, sorry. "THE DANSANT" is French for "TEA DANCE", the sort of dance people > [used to] go to in the afternoon. That's why I chose that example. I'm sure > one could come up with several others. The one I like best, that fools > librarians but not sort software is where to file a book called "Trees, > Forests and Rearranging". No, not forestry but computer [sorting] > algorithms. A real book. > > > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline
