[Lexicog] Sort order problem

[David Frank]

from David Frank:

I'm afraid I don't have a lot of experience with Shoebox/Toolbox, but I 
would have expected a computer program like this to automatically delete any 
trailing spaces for every field. Does the program not do that? It is a very 
simple and standard thing to do. You shouldn't have to do that manually, or 
do your own programming.

Surely Shoebox/Toolbox uses the space the way it does in sorting not because 
of natural ASCII sort order or because of trailing spaces at the end of a 
field, but because that is how the programmers thought that most people 
would want entries sorted. But you should be able to specify your preferred 
sort order. I will leave it up to someone else to say how spaces can be 
ignored completely.

I still find it helpful to have a "sort key" field for each entry, whereby 
the lexical entry is converted according to rules into a sort key, and the 
sort key is used for sorting. I haven't tried doing that with 
Shoebox/Toolbox, though. 



 
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