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1) Searching in the Persons Field
It is necessary to enter some text in at least one
field. Fields where
text has been entered are connected by the "and" operator. Entries are
not case sensitive.
It is possible to omit letters at the
beginning or end of a word. The entry Arib would produce the
result Aribo, Aribert, Garibald, Garibay.
An underscore stands for a single letter. The entry M_yer produces the
result Mayer, Meyer, Thurmayer, Galgemayr etc.
A percent sign stands for either no symbol or an arbitrary number of symbols.
To find a Mayer or Meyer, who died in 1700, one enters M_yer%1700. The
entry 1700%M_yer would produce a null result since the name column
comes before the dates (of death or of office) column.
In a search for Kaiser Karl V., the simple entry Kaiser would
produce too many results (namely all Imperial emissaries, etc.). For
manually-prepared database entries a search for Kaiser; Karl V. would
produce optimal results. In machine-processed indexes, however, the
entry appears differently in the various sources e.g. as "Kaiser und
Könige, deutsche: Karl V." or as "Kaiser Karl V." Such database entries
- displayed with background color - are obtained by entering
Kaiser%Karl V. Similarly, when searching for Papst Gregor V.,
trying Papst%Gregor V is recommended in addition to Papst; Gregor
V.
One can also search for Forenames.
Entry of special symbols like â, ç, ë, ü
can prove
problematical. In as far as it is possible to enter them at all, they
may be incorrectly interpreted depending on computer operating
system. Here one can resort to an underscore, for
example L'H_pital for L'Hôpital. Such substitution
should only be undertaken if one anticipates a special
symbol.
In order to provide the desired results where no special symbol is
expected, the search process has been designed so as to be
tolerant of the manner of writing. Thus, entering e.g. Nunez or
Viete also yields Nuñez or Viète, respectively. In
the same sense, entering Roemer also yields Römer
and Rømer. Somewhat different is the situation with special
symbols from outside the ISO-8859-1 range, as e.g.
ā ǎ ć č Ḥ
ḥ ī ǐ ł ń
ř ś œ Œ ū
ǔ
etc.; one does in fact also find these by entering the root letter but
not with the substitution symbol _ and, if at all, only with %
since they are represented internally through several individual
symbols. (An example with several symbols from this range is obtained
by entering Khwarizmi). In all cases, those hits which match the
entry exactly are displayed with a green background whereas neighboring
ones do not appear in color.
2) Further information
In the column Fund1, one is referred to places in series I, IV and V
(General, History, Politics) of the Leibniz Academy edition; the column
Fund2 refers to places in series III, VII and VIII (Mathematics,
Science, Medicine, and Technology) and Fund3, finally, to places in
series II and VI (Philosophy) of the Leibniz edition.
For the older
volumes, if a person is referred to no more than five times in a
volume, the page references in question are listed whereas page
references in excess of five are designated by a + sign. For later
volumes, the number of five references has been replaced by twenty. In
both cases the reader is advised to consult the persons index of the
volume in question.
If a person is referred to in more than five volumes, these five
volumes were previously given together with a + sign. This rule no
longer applies for the more recent volumes.
A page number in apostrophes or single-quote marks (e.g. '351') means
that the person in question is referred to on page 351 in small
print. Numbers in parentheses give the person's dates or year of death;
those in angular brackets denote years of rule.
The sign "^"
means
"see".
3) Finding volume numbers in Found Columns
On entering a volume number a search is carried out in accordance with
the division explained above in one of the Found columns, Fund1 to
Fund3. The entry should always be made in the form roman.arabic.
Notice should be taken of the fact that often, for the older entries,
several volumes may be listed in succession (Example: Kirchmayer I.2 3
6 7 10 15). For more recent entries every volume appears in the form
roman.arabic. An attempt was made to take account of this
automatically; whether or not this was successful in all cases is as
yet unclear.
4) Searching in the field Orders
For religious orders one should enter the following abbreviations in
the column in question:
OCARM, OESA, OFM, OFMCAP, OMCAP,
OP, OPRAEM, OSA, OSB, OSCL, OSD,
OTHEAT, SJ, SOCIST
To find a Jesuit with forename Albert, one should enter Albert in the
Persons field and SJ in the Orders field.
