Begin forwarded message: > From: arts-thesauri <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Historical sorting in the online Historical Thesaurus of English > Date: 9 April 2014 15:12:33 BST > To: 'David Kendal' <[email protected]> > Cc: arts-thesauri <[email protected]> > > Hi > > Many thanks for pointing this out. It wasn't a change of policy but a simple > fault in the system. I think you should find that chronological order has > been restored, but if there are any problems please get back to us. > > Best wishes > > Christian Kay > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Kendal [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 03 April 2014 04:24 > To: arts-thesauri > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Historical sorting in the online Historical Thesaurus of English > > Hi, > > I believe the online version of the HTE used to order the words in categories > historically, as it should being a *historical* thesaurus. It now seems to > sort alphabetically, e.g. > <http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/category/?id=128551> > > Even if this was not the case and the online version always sorted > alphabetically, could historical sorting be enabled? That's kind of the point > of a thesaurus on historical principles ... > > (I can appreciate that alphabetic sort may be useful in some cases, so > perhaps the sort style could be made an option?) > > Thanks, > > dpk >
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