Nelson,
thanks! This is great.
tex
On Mar 6, 3:16pm, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Subject: Re: German-Library Collation
> >> I have some questions about a sort ordering known as German-Library
> >> Collation
>
> I believe the ordering you are referring to is German Industrial
> Standard DIN 5007. We have implemented this in the makeindex program,
> which is used for indexing LaTeX and TeX documents.
>
> Here is the relevant portion of the manual page description:
>
> -g Employ German word ordering in the index, in
> accord with rules set forth in the German
> Industrial Standard DIN 5007. The normal
> makeindex word ordering precedence is: sym-
> bols, numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase
> letters. The sequence in German word ordering
> is: symbols, lowercase letters, uppercase let-
> ters, numbers. In both orderings, case is
> ignored when grouping letters, so the ordering
> is A a B b C c ... (normal), or a A b B c C
> ... (German), not A B C ... a b c ... or a b
> c ... A B C ... Additionally, this option
> enables recognition of the German TeX commands
> {"a, "o, "u and "s} as {ae, oe, ue and ss}
> during the sorting of the entries, and rede-
> fines the default quote character to '+'.
>
> A search on the Web at http://altavista.digital.com/ for "DIN 5007"
> turned up 35 documents, among them several copies of the makeindex
> manual pages, plus the following:
>
> http://melgt.mv.uni-kl.de/Brett/din-normen.html
>
> DIN 5007 (04.91)
> Ordnen von Schriftzeichenfolgen
> (ABC-Regeln)
> Ers. f. Ausg. 11.62
> Ablage bei: eb
> {656} Eingabe durch:
>
> Another possibly useful reference is at
>
> http://www.crim.ca/APIIQ/interface/face9607.html
>
> Relations of various standards for string orderings are discussed
> extensively at
>
>
http://www.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~kehr/i18n/iso14651.html
>
> Comments on the sorting issues for internationalization of programs
> are at
>
> http://www.ceveil.qc.ca/Normes/inter1.html [in French]
>
> Finally, some more information of sorting in a particular programming
> language relevant to DIN 5007 is at
>
> http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/refman/node4.html [in German]
>
>
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