Sort order of entries in an index

steve at siliconprairiesoftware.com steve at siliconprairiesoftware.com
Tue Jul 1 14:21:38 PDT 2008


Lester is on the right track...

He said this:

    Try adding a space before the opening square bracket of the sort order:

        studs:70 mm roller locations [studs:070 mm]
        studs:90 mm roller locations [studs:090 mm]

The spaces don't affect the sorting. The importing thing to note is that
the item included in the square brackets must be a complete index entry.
Lester's example is a complete entry in the square brackets, so his
example should sort correctly.

Another common problem with re-sorting is that once Frame encounters the
set of square brackets, it stops parsing the entry. That's why you can't
have entries that look like this:

studs: 70 mm[070 mm]: roller

Instead, the re-sorting should appear at the end:

studs: 70 mm: roller[studs: 070 mm: roller]

Hope this helps.

Steve






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