Hi Dan! It depends if you are dependent on a particular tool to effect the sort. If not, it is quite normal to sort words in a case-insensitive or case-sensitive way, at will. You can even find this feature in some text editors, like this one http://www.editplus.com/ (but I am sure others will have other and better suggestions). If you want to program the sort yourself, the precise solution will depend on the language, but you should be able to do that alright.

Best wishes, Marjorie

Le 16/04/2011 20:40, Dan Mosser a écrit :

The Digital Index of Middle English Verse (iMEV: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/imev/Index.html) is now complete insofar as entering all the IMEV records, those of its Supplement, many new records, and most of the data collected for first-two and last-two lines of all witnesses except those in London archives.

Now for some fine tuning...

Since upper and lower case letters are recognized as distinct by a computer, I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows of a way to effect a sort that won't treat them as different.

Thanks!