"Scott" == Scott Lawton <scott_bulkmail@productarchitect.com> writes:
>>> <title>The Title of the EText</title> <-- MANDATORY SECTION >>> --> >> We should provide an non-standard attribute of >> "nonfiling". This is the number of chars to remove from the >> start of title before sorting it. >> >> <title nonfiling="4">The Tempest</title> >> >> <title nonfiling="2">A Midsummer Nights Dream</title> >> >> This is an extension to TEI but very useful for the catalog >> software. It avoids unsightly titles like: "Tempest, The" and >> still sorts right. Scott> I think that should be done (or not) by the cataloging Scott> software rather than hardcoded into each file. How can the software guess what is filing and what not? "As Farpas" and "As you like it", "As" is filing or not? Here the language might decide, but I think that it is possible in the same language to have the same word to be filing or non filing (surely it is in italian if you disregard accents). However, relying on character count is very fragile, especially in a context in which whitespace is considered irrelevant. I have often seen braces used in sorting software: <title>{The} Tempest</title>, <title>{A} Midsummer Nights Dream</title>: characters in braces and whitespace are discarded for the purpose of sorting, braces are discarded for the purpose of printing. Of course it is possible to achieve the same result, much more verbosely, with angled brackets.... <title><nonfiling>The</nonfiling> Tempest</title> (a side remark: a non-filing part is not always separated by space: <title>{L'}Inferno</title>) Carlo