[Fwd: Re: [greenstone-devel] Ignoring "The" and "A" in titles]

From Katherine Don
DateThu, 16 Dec 2004 10:54:42 +1300
Subject [Fwd: Re: [greenstone-devel] Ignoring "The" and "A" in titles]


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From: Katherine Don <kjdon&#64;cs.waikato.ac.nz>
To: Doug Carter <dcarter@mercycorps.org>
Subject: Re: [greenstone-devel] Ignoring "The" and "A" in titles
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:38:14 +1300

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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:38:14 +1300
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Hi Doug

You can use the -removeprefix option: the value is a regular expression
that will remove matching symbols at the start of the sort metadata.

Remember that you can do classinfo.pl <classifiername> to see all the
options available.

Cheers,
Katherine

Doug Carter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to sort documents by title, but ignoring common starting
> words like "The" or "A".
>
> For example, the document titled "The December Field Report" would be
> sorted in with documents that start with "D" and not "T".
>
> TIA,
>
> Doug
>
>
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