Re: [Refdb-users] citestyle's BIBLIOSEQUENCE sorts upper and lower alpha separately

[Bruce D'A. <bda...@gm...>]

On 4/17/07, Jus...@pi... <Jus...@pi...> wrote:
> Markus Hoenicka <mar...@mh...> wrote on Tue, 17 Apr
> 2007 15:16:27 +0200:
>
> > is it reasonable to expect e.g. from an XSLT-based bibliography
> > formatting system to correctly identify the first word or words
> > relevant for sorting names or titles?
>
> For names, I think the proper way would be to represent their
> different parts separately (as BibTeX does it implictly through
> obscure syntax conventions); they could then be accessed individually
> by style sheets.

But sorting conventions vary by locale, so you can't rely on this.

In Asia (and indeed, in Western Europe when dealing with Asian names),
for example, you sort the same way you display. E.g. "Mao Zedong"
sorts like "Mao Zedong."

I've come around to believing that it's easier and more
straightforward for people records to have an explicit sort-string
property, as vCard does.

Bruce