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Old 01-05-2014, 10:55 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It's perhaps worth noting that Dutch names of the form "van X", should be sorted under "X", not under "van". ie, the prefix is ignored for sorting purposes.
Interestingly, the author sort name algorithm tweak does not have a section for those.

So Mark L. Van Name should be in the "N's"?

is there a difference when the case of 'van' changes?
A. E. van Vogt <it still sorts in V , just moves down the list)
what about Vandyke or is it VanDyke', just no space? sort on the V or D?
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