category specificity, SOPE on a rope, Flint

[dicentra63]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> Amy:
> 
> > My big question is how specific to get in creating
> > categories.  First post, topic: Ginny.  It's a general
> > post (not very interesting, truth be told) and I
> > thought, what if I were using this catalogue to write
> > a FAQ on Ginny?  Wouldn't it be great if the catalogue
> > did what I was going to have to do otherwise: not only
> > find all the Ginny posts but put them into categories?
> >  So I created a heading called Ginny--general.
> > 
> > When it comes to other characters, I can foresee
> > dozens of subcategories.  Snape--ESE?, Snape--hair,
> > Snape--loyalty, Snape--courage, Snape--teaching
> > ability . . .  Very nice for FAQers.  Necessary at
> > this stage?
> 
> I have to kick this over to Dicey for tech advice.  Dicey, say a 
> post is catalogued as "Snape" "Hair" "Prank" because it discusses 
> how everyone played pranks on Snape because of his long greasy 
> hair.  Is it possible to do a sort in Excel so that not only do all 
> the Snape keyword posts get sorted together but the Snape & Hair 
> posts get sorted together?  I don't think so, but I'm not sure.

Excel lets you do a sort on three columns at once.  So if the first
column says "Snape," all the Snapes will be together.  Then it will
sort the Snapes according to the criteria in the second column
(alphabetically), and it will sort the items in the second column
according to the items in the third.  You have to specify that it sort
the second two columns, though.  I guess that's another entry for the
Help doc (that's down the line a bit, though).
> 
> > Or--<holds breath>--will there be a way for users of
> > this catalogue to search for cross-listings, 
> 
> Dicey?
> 
> I kind of assume that the editor will have some issue "Harry's 
> courage."  The editor will sort and then copy (or print) the blocks 
> that come up under "Harry" and "Courage."  The editor can then have 
> his or her personal issue-specific catalogue to play with.  The 
> editor can then do things like search for other words that might 
> appear in the comments section -- bravery, fearless, etc.
> 
> Does that sound right? 

I guess so. (Rolls eyes as if to say "yeah, like I understood *that*.")
> 
> > I prefer Flint because FLINT makes it look like an
> > acronym, which it isn't.
> 
> Dicey:
> 
> I don't think it matters, because the search function will pick up 
> FLINT and Flint and flINT.

The default for seach is to not be case sensitive.  You can do a
case-sensitive search, but you have to set it up that way.

--Dicey