Another option for the title is to use a file-as attribute. <title file-as="Tempest, The">The Tempest</title> <title file-as="Midsummer Nights Dream, A">A Midsummer Nights Dream</title> While this may not be included in the TEI standard, it is part of the OEB standard, http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.0.1/download/oeb101-xhtml.htm -----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Scott Lawton Sent: 19 November, 2004 13:31 To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] TEI Header Spec (rough draft)
<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.
I think that should be done (or not) by the cataloging software rather than hardcoded into each file. It's an easy thing to miss, i.e. to be done inconsistently. And, since it's not part of non-PG TEI, there's no other software in the outside world that looks for it. (I may have made this point before, but if so I can't find it in my archives.) -- Cheers, Scott S. Lawton http://Classicosm.com/ - classic books http://ProductArchitect.com/ - consulting _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d