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    Word in double angle brackets (<<word>>) not being suppressed from Browse index

    • 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