• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
We are experiencing at our OPAC (20.1) trouble indexing ACC entries (eg TIT) with articles which must be supressed, eg: 246 $$a <<The>> golden sayings. It is being indexed as "The golden sayings" instead of "golden sayings".

We have these tab_filing lines:

11 D end_sub_punctuation :,=;/.
11 N non_filing
11 N to_blank !"()-{}<>;:.?/\@*%=^_`~
11 N comma
11 N del_subfield_code
11 N del_lead_space
11 N char_conv FILING-KEY-10
11 N to_lower
11 N pack_spaces
11 N end_sub_punctuation U+0020
11 N suppress 88-89,<<>>
11 F end_sub_punctuation .
11 F del_subfield
11 F suppress 88-89,<<>>
11 F numbers
11 F expand_num
11 F suppress [[]]
11 F to_blank $,
11 F compress '[]
11 F pack_spaces
11 F char_conv FILING-KEY-01
11 F cjk_pinyin
11 F del_subfield

Resolution:
The problem is the line:

11 N to_blank !"()-{}<>;:.?/\@*%=^_`~

This line is causing the < and > characters to be changed to blank prior to the time that the suppress is executed.

You need to do one of two things:

1. Move the to_blank line to *after* the suppress line; or

2. Change the to_blank line to eliminate the "<>", that is:

11 N to_blank !"()-{};:.?/\@*%=^_`~

#1 is probably better.

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013