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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, May 2, 2012 01:17 AM UTC:

David,

In the Item table, there is a column called SummaryPrefix. The values I've
seen in this field have all been NULL or the empty string. Looking at
edititem.php, I see there is a place to enter it. It is an unidentified
field that appears after the "Item Name:" field. What is the
SummaryPrefix column for, and how is it supposed to be used? And if it's
supposed to be a prefix, why does the form field for it appear in the
suffix position?

David Howe wrote on Wed, May 2, 2012 11:43 AM UTC:

Fergus, the summary prefix is used for entries such as "The Last
Mourning". The summary is set to "Last Mourning" and the summary prefix
is "The". This allows entries to be listed in proper order. There is no
good reason for the prefix field to display after the summary field, and I
cannot remember why I did it that way. In any case, please feel free to
change it if you'd like.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, May 2, 2012 01:19 PM UTC:

Is the SummaryPrefix value actually being used? I entered a test value for
my Episcopal Chess preset, but when I looked at its listing in the index,
it wasn't to be seen.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, May 2, 2012 01:25 PM UTC:

Assuming it is used, suppose I place a comma between the two form fields,
and replace the text input used for SummaryPrefix with a select-option list
of articles with none as the default. It could include "A", "An",
"The", and some foreign language articles, "Ein", "Eine", "Das",
"Der", "Die", "Un", "La", "Le", "Les", and "Al".

Jörg Knappen wrote on Thu, May 3, 2012 12:35 PM UTC:

Considering articles, I suggest the following additions:

Une (french)
L' (french)
Les (french)
Il (italian)
Gli (italian)
Lo (italian/spanish)
Los (spanish)
Las (spanish)
De (dutch)
Het (dutch)
Een (dutch)

I think it is a good thing to ignore articles in subject ordered lists.
Traditional german library instructions do exactly this.

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