Sorting: Ignoring periods

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Darren:

Have you tried specifying the sort order with square brackets in each
index marker? For example:

Heidi Chronicles.[Heidi Chronicles]
Heidi.[Heidi]

etc.

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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584
CBSS/GBHAC <Darren.Butler.ctr at robins.af.mil> wrote:
> Fred Ridder wrote:
>>>The cause is easy.  Period follow spaces in the standard sort order.
> Any entry that includes Heidi followed by a space will sort before an
> entry that has Heidi followed by a period (or almost any other
> punctuation character). The best fix for your situation is another
> matter...<<
>
>
> If changing the SortOrder or the IgnoreChars building blocks won't help,
> does anybody have any ideas on what else I can do - even if it's not a
> total fix - because I have a customer that's producing very large
> indexes. Finding every out-of-order "Heidi" would be tedious and
> eye-straining.
>
> Thanx,
> DJ
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:33 PM
> To: Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
> Subject: RE: Sorting: Ignoring periods
>
> The cause is easy.  Period follow spaces in the standard sort order.
> Any entry that includes Heidi followed by a space will sort before an
> entry that has Heidi followed by a period (or almost any other
> punctuation character).
>
> The best fix for your situation is another matter...
>
>
>
>> Subject: Sorting: Ignoring periods
>> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:43:32 -0400
>> From: Darren.Butler.ctr at Robins.af.mil
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>>
>> Hello fellow FrameManiacs,
>>
>>
>>
>> In an index of paragraph titles;
>>
>>
>>
>> I WANT:
>>
>> Heidi.
>>
>> Heidi Chronicles.
>>
>> Heidi Fleiss.
>>
>> Heidi Ho.
>>
>> Heidi Klum.
>>
>>
>>
>> I GET:
>>
>> Heidi Chronicles.
>>
>> Heidi Fleiss.
>>
>> Heidi Ho.
>>
>> Heidi Klum.
>>
>> Heidi.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do I need to monkey with the SortOrder of the IgnoreChars?
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> DJ