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Ignored Words

Certain format specifiers act on lists of words. In this situation it can be desirable to ignore certain words. For instance when a sort key is constructed with the title of books it is common practice to omit certain words like articles. This is accomplished by a list of igored words. This list is initialized at compile time to contain articles of different languages (If the installer has not modified it).

The resource ignored.word can be used to put additional words onto the list of ignored words. For this purpose the new word is given as argument to the resource as in the following example:

ignored.word {word}

To gain complete control over the list of ignored words you can completely overwrite the compiled in defaults. This can be accomplished by clearing the list of ignored words. Afterwards no word is recognized as ignored word until new words are added to this list. This operation can be performed with the resource clear.ignored.words. In principal this operation does not require any argument. Since this contradicts the syntactic restrictions for resources you have to give an empty argument to this resource:

clear.ignored.words {}



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