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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label bibprefixsort</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>BibTeX sorting and name prefixes</h3>
-<p/>BibTeX recognises a bewildering array of name prefixes (mostly
-those deriving from European language names); it ignores the prefixes
-when sorting the bibliography &mdash; you want &ldquo;Ludwig van Beethoven&rdquo;
-sorted under &ldquo;Beethoven&rdquo;, not under &ldquo;van&rdquo;. (Lamport made a witty
-deliberate mistake with Beethoven&rsquo;s name, in the first edition of his
-LaTeX manual.)
-<p/>However, a recurring issue is the desire to quote Lord Rayleigh&rsquo;s
-publications (&ldquo;Lord&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t an acceptable prefix), or names from
-languages that weren&rsquo;t considered when BibTeX was designed such as
-&ldquo;al-Wakil&rdquo; (transcribed from the Arabic). What&rsquo;s needed is a
-separate &ldquo;sort key&rdquo;, but BibTeX only allows such a thing in
-citations of items that have no author or editor.
-<p/>The solution is to embed the sort key in the author&rsquo;s name, but to
-prevent it from being typeset. Patashnik recommends a command
-<code>\</code><code>noopsort</code> (no-output-sortkey), which is defined and used as
-follows:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-@PREAMBLE{ {\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}} }
-...
-@ARTICLE{Rayleigh1,
-AUTHOR = "{\noopsort{Rayleigh}}{Lord Rayleigh}",
-...
-}
-</pre>
-
-</blockquote><p>
-Note that this <code>\</code><code>noopsort</code> applies to the last name in this kind of
-construct, so an author with an Arabic name might be rendered:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-...
-AUTHOR = "Ali {\noopsort{Hadiidii}}{al-Hadiidii}",
-...
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-
-A further use might deal with word order games, as in the famous
-Vietnamese name:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-...
-AUTHOR = "\noopsort{Thanh Han The}{Han The Thanh}",
-...
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-
-though that author seems well-acquainted with Western confusion about
-the significance of the parts of his name (even to the extent of
-missing out the accentuation, as above...).
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bibprefixsort">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bibprefixsort</a>
-</body>