Re: [Groff] refer and Dutch names

[Robert D. Goulding]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Christian Jensen wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to handle Dutch (and other) names like "'t Hart",
> which are alphabetized under 'H' but printed as shown? I have the
> following entry in my bibliographic database:
>
> %A Johan \'t\ Hart
> %D 2003
> %T The title
>
> When I run this through grefer and groff (-me) with appropriate .R1 -
> .R2 settings it produces
>
> 't Hart (2003): The title.
>
> correctly, but under 'T' in the final, sorted references. Is there a way
> to 'cheat' refer into sorting "'t Hart" under 'H'?
>

This seems to work:

Add another field for the problematic entries, say %Z, which contains the
term under which the reference should be sorted:

%Z Hart

Then put these lines between the .R1 .R2:

no-discard
sort Z1A1

or however you want it sorted.  Note, you only need the Z field for
entries which do not follow refer's standard alphabetization.  I tried
this out with the following refer file, entitled t.ref:

%A Johan \'t\ Hart
%D 2003
%T The Title
%Z Hart

%A Robert Goulding
%T My Book
%D 2002

%A Samuel Iguana
%T A book
%D 1884

and the following file:

.R1
database t.ref
no-discard
sort Z1A1
.R2
.lp
See
.[
Hart
.]
and
.[
Goulding
.]
and
.[
Iguana
.]
.bp
.[
$LIST$
.]



't Hart appears between Goulding and Iguana, as expected.  BTW, why use \'
instead of just '?  Is it normal Dutch typography to have an acute accent
like that?

Something I just noted.  If I add a `reverse A' line, I start getting
error messages.  It seems that refer won't allow any escape character in a
name.  Can that be right?

R.