Sorting Indexes

[Debbi Correia]

Hi Rick,
I don't have experience with Ukrainian, but I've worked with many other
languages. You can change the sort order of a single entry by including
sort information in brackets after the entry in the Marker dialog box
(this is shown clearly in the online help).

I assume what you are asking is more detailed than this, and that you
want to change the way the entire index gets sorted based on the
Ukrainian language. To do this, go to the IX reference page and change
the entries in the SortOrderIX paragraph. By default the index is sorted
by <$symbols><$numerics><$alphabetics>, but you can rearrange these
three buildings blocks if desired. Obviously <$numerics> includes the
numbers 0-9 and <$alphabetics> includes all alpha characters. The
<$symbols> building block includes any characters that aren't listed
under <$numerics> or <$alphabetics>, and they get sorted by ASCII value.
You can replace any of these building blocks with character that you
type in manually for more control over the order, or to include a
character from one section in another instead. For example, instead of
using the <$alphabetics> building block, type in all of the letters in
the order in which they should appear -- including upper and lowercase
letters!

Hope that helps!

Debbi Correia

Rick Quatro wrote:

> I have a client that has FrameMaker documents in Ukrainian. 
> They are having 
> difficulties sorting the indexes correctly. Any help or 
> advice would be 
> appreciated. Thanks.