Re: [VuFind-General] Title sort puts punctuation first

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

I believe that titles which start with punctuation should have the MARC skip indicator in the 245 field set to bypass the punctuation.  This detail is commonly omitted, which causes sorting problems.  So two possible solutions:

1.) Fix the cataloging and reindex.

2.) Write a custom indexing routine that strips punctuation in addition to respecting the skip indicator when populating the title_sort field.

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karla Smith [mailto:sm...@wi...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:47 PM
> To: vuf...@li...
> Subject: [VuFind-General] Title sort puts punctuation first
> 
> Hi,
> I've been following the thread on fixing the sort for the Alphabetical Browse,
> but I'm not sure that solution would apply to my problem which is:
> 
> When I choose Sort by Title in the dropdown menu, it does an ascii sort and
> puts all the punctuation and numbers first before it ever gets to A. I noticed
> several VuFind sites have this issue.
> 
> Is there a way to fix that?
> 
> --Karla
> Karla Smith
> Winnefox Library System
> Oshkosh, WI 54901
> sm...@wi...
> ~Sometimes the only solution is to find a new problem.
> 
> 
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