Re: [IUG] Puzzled about apostrophes

["Strouse, Mary" <STROUSE at law dot edu>]

Apostrophes are classed as punctuation, rather than spelling, which is why the keyword synonyms list won't help you.  Some punctuation is indexed as a space (periods, for example) and other punctuation doesn't index at all (apostrophes).  How users are supposed to know the difference, I've never understood.   See IGR Page # 101138

Mary

If I have to be a dinosaur, it helps to be a useful dinosaur

Mary M. Strouse
Head of Technical Services
Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library
Catholic Univ. of America
(202) 319-5547
FAX (202) 319-4447
strouse at law dot cua dot edu

http://library.law.cua.edu

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From: innopac-bounces at innovativeusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innovativeusers dot org] On Behalf Of David dot W dot Brown at kp dot org
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 3:57 PM
To: innopac at innovativeusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] Puzzled about apostrophes

Greetings.
In our system, searching "lippincott's" fails; one must search 
"lippincotts" (no apostrophe) in our modules. So, I thought, let's just 
make "lippincotts" and "lippincott's" equivalent words. After much 
searching, I found the place in the Telnet access which allows one to do 
this, but .... the system refuses an entry of "lippincott's", that is, you 
cannot enter "lippincott's" with the apostrophe, only "lippincotts" 
without. A circumstance which prevents one, obviously, from making the two 
spellings equivalent.

I have no idea how to look this up in the manual. Please, am I missing 
something here?

Thank you!

best regards,

David W. Brown, MA, MLS, AHIP
Library Technical Services Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente
1950 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: 510-987-4340 or tie-line 8-427-4340
Fax telephone 510-987-3548 or tie-line 8-427-3548


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