can sorting ignore characters like ", ' and (

[simoncn]

(14-11-2014 19:47)adrian Wrote:  Are you sure? The implication is that if I ask it to ignore "the" then a title starting with "theater" will be sorted under "A", since it would remove the leading "the" leaving "ater". When I want to ignore double quote, there is no white space after the double quote character.

Note that I tried it, writing a sort.ignore={the,an,a,"} and it didn't seem to have any effect on the sorting of the titles starting with ". It does ignore "the", "an", and "a" as desired, so I think my setup is correct.

I checked the code and you are correct. When you ignore "the", MinimServer is looking for tag values starting with "the ", not tag values starting with "the". This is why "theater" doesn't sort under "A".

To get what you want, you will need to use custom sort values.