Suggestions for Tellico (2)

Robby Stephenson robby at periapsis.org
Thu Nov 30 08:08:19 MST 2006


On Wednesday 29 November 2006 8:02, Regis Boudin wrote:
> > So, could there be an option to allow that ? Just a checkbox saying
> > that "sort without the article, but displaying the article" ?
>
> That's a good point, again. I'm not really bothered by this, probably
> because I'm used to it, and my collection contains both French and
> English books. But I guess it could be done, it's probably mainly a
> matter of making the option clear enough.

Right, the sort key is not necessarily the visible string. I can't think of 
better wording at the moment either.  I'll put that on for the next 
version.

> > And finally, the last suggestion (still for French localisation), the
> > articles "le" and "la" are always truncated to "l'" when followed by a
> > vowel-beginning word. For instance, the title "The Invisible Man" is
> > translated to "L'Homme invisible" (without space between "L'" and
> > "Homme") and not "Le Homme invisible" nor "L' Homme invisible" (with a
> > space between "L'" and "Homme"). Could it be possible to take that in
> > count when we list the articles ?
>
> This is a known problem for some time (at least by me, but I never took
> the time to try and find a solution or report it).

Yeah, I think I'd tried putting in a fix for that but didn't get it 
finished, at one point.

Robby



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