Use standardized title sort and display

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Dawkins' book 'The Blind Watchmaker' is sorted by its first word, 'The', but 
standard library sort order would sort it by 'Blind', as though the book were 
titled without that word, and appear as 'Blind Watchmaker, The'.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Aug 2010 at 5:34

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I think what you are referring to is not "standard," but yes, commonly used. 
Seems like the "mechanical" sort order disregarding leading articles. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_catalog

"In the mechanical sort order, the first word of the title is the first sort 
term. Most new catalogs use this scheme, but still include a trace of the 
grammatical sort order: they neglect an article (The, A, etc.) at the beginning 
of the title."

We could do this for English, but there are complications for other languages 
as that article notes. 

Original comment by [email protected] on 29 Aug 2010 at 6:58

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Original comment by [email protected] on 29 Aug 2010 at 6:58

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I looked into this more and it gets tricky. What about "A is for Alibi"? and 
such, we don't know to remove the leading article then? 

More info 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1285849/custom-order-by-to-ignore-the

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Oct 2010 at 3:16

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At the same time we do the sort by last name, we could add a "title_sort" 
column, and we could strip articles that go in that. Still tough in some cases 
though (like "A is for Alibi"). 

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Oct 2010 at 7:59

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