© F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template
Last update: May, 6, 2004


 4.11. Sort

The overstriked grid's items have not been taken into account for the purposes of this shorter evaluation: it does not imply at all that the package cannot perform the relevant function.
The numbering and the content are the same as the full version of the evaluation grid

Sort

Biblioscape Bookends

1 Scope
   1. sorting records within the database
   2. sorting records in output

Biblioscape: 1 2 Bookends: 1 2

2 Basic sort criterium for characters:
   1. operating system's tables
   2. program specific settings and/or tables
   3. user defined table (es. Š = ae)

3 Sort keys on different levels

Biblioscape: built-in criteria on 2 or 3 levels Bookends: 3 (on any field A/D)

4 How to sort the database

Biblioscape: click on column bar of short record list when secondary index for the field is provided (can customize) Bookends: ad hoc command ("Refs" --> Sort all references)

5 How to sort for printing

Biblioscape: bibliography sort order is included in each style (5 options available); output reports have their own sort sequence Bookends: ad hoc command ("Hits" --> Sort Hits List)

6 Database sort is kept over sessions

Biblioscape: yes Bookends: yes

7 Sort key length can be defined

8 Sort for printing belongs to output styles

9 Sort records in output using:
   1. words
   2. single occurrence of a multiple field
   3. marked strings
   4. portions of field and subfield
   5. whole field
   6. other

Bookends:

10 Can alter the sort value of a string

Biblioscape: no Bookends: no

11 Conditional commands available for sorting

12 Sort keys derived from different fields

13 Ignore initial articles and punctuation marks

Biblioscape: no Bookends: no

14 Other

Biblioscape: sorting is case sensitive in any item list (lookup term lists: thus "berlusconi" is sorted after "Zapatero"), sorting is case insensitive only in the main brief record list.
But user can choose to use case-sensitive or case-insensitive by click the right mouse button
Bookends: n.a.



15 Sort can produce headings above sorted records (so called : "subject bibliography", indexed/headed report)

Biblioscape Bookends
Biblioscape: yes Bookends: n.a.


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