[mythtv-users] MythWeb Title sort order

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:12:09PM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > Bug, or over-eager algorithm?
> 
> A and The are dropped (among others). It's on purpose. For an example  
> of dropping "A" when before a title, see iTunes.

It's been common for indexes of proper names to drop the articles "a",
"an", and "the" in leading position at least since I was in high school
(class of '83); I acquired no sense that it was new at the time, that I
can recall.

IE: we've been indexing that way for a *long* time.  Things which
*can't* do that when they sort indexes are the ones that drive *me* up
the wall, personally.

It's much more difficult than I would have thought to find indexing
rules on the web, but there's some interesting material at 

	http://www.judywebster.gil.com.au/methods.html

Including a reference to the book "Indexing, the art of", which may be
the single best book title in history.  :-)

Cheers,
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