[Koha-devel] Requested feature (biblio title order)

[Paul POULAIN]

Hi,

In 2.2, when you order a search by title, stopwords at the beginning are 
still used in the ordering.
"A simple software" will be ordered before "The last minute".
In France (& I think in other countries it's the same), we are supposed 
to have "A" and "The" ignored at the beginning of the title having
"(A) simple software" after "(the) last minute".

To add this feature in Koha we could :
* add a field in biblio.title. Call it biblio.titlenostopword (anybody a 
suggestion for a better name ;-) ?)
* in Biblio.pm, in OLDnewbiblio / OLDmodbiblio => put the title with 
stopwords removed in this new field
* don't order on biblio.title but on the new field.

Quite simple to do, a day of work not more.

Do we think it's an important feature that could be in 2.2.x or not ?

I vote yes. the risk of unstability is really low, for a nice feature.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)