FW: Sorting by Case

[Michael Horlick]

>>Different publishing houses have different ordering rules. There is no one
>>right or wrong answer; however, one should expect consistency within a
>>given publishing house.

that may very well be the case, but the crux of my argument was that the set
of letters that can be termed 'English' are not catalogued under an
'English' heading, but rather a 'Latin' heading.

what english does should have little to no impact on which order the letters
are catalogued in -- it should follow the order used in the rest of the
standard -- capital, then lowercase.

michael
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Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Sorting by Case


On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Michael Horlick wrote:

>      Even if the American Heritage dictionary catalogs words in a
> lowercase-then-uppercase manner, the heading at the top of each section
> reads 'A a' and 'B b' -- not the other way around.

But that's a design choice and has no bearing on the order in which
they're entered in the A-Z text.

Different publishing houses have different ordering rules. There is no one
right or wrong answer; however, one should expect consistency within a
given publishing house.

-- Steve K.