Ignoring the first word/character, but only if there is no following symbol.
Been using Low Alphabet for quite a while. It really is amazing. Just recently came across an issue when using the "alpha_ignore" to ignore "A" or "The" for example.
If the second letter is a symbol other than a letter (like apostrophe, hyphen, ampersand..), then the name is skipped. For example, A.C. Cleaners does not show up. It actually shows up in the "C" list. I've tested several different characters (apostrophe, hyphen, ampersand).. They all do the same thing. I realize that when I use the "alpha_ignore" parameter, it would skip the letter.. But, I think that if the name is A's Cleaners, or A.C. Cleaners, or A&C Cleaners, etc. Then the "A" should not be skipped.
Is there something I'm missing? I still want to filter out "A" from being sorted (like typical alphabetization), but if the first "A" in a name is part of an abbreviation, or something like the examples above, I want it to be counted.
For now, I've removed a from the alpha_ignore parameter.
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Low 3 Jul 2013 20:05
Ah yes. The algorithm to remove punctuation replaces those with a space. Then the ignore words are removed. Looks like that might use some tweaking in the order in which things are handled. I'll look into it.
AasunEble 3 Jul 2013 21:38
Ok. Thanks! For the time-being, I've just removed "A" from the ignore word. It's not that big of a deal.. But, would be nice to have the ability to have any punctuation exempt the ignore word.
Low 4 Jul 2013 06:21
I've put it on my todo-list!