Sorting: Ignoring periods

[Fred Ridder]

Darrenn Butler wrote:
> 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.
 
I'm still not sure I understand why the index entries use a period in the
first place. I have never seen an index that uses that punctuation 
convention. 
 
But assuming that the intent is that *every* index entry ends in a period,
I would include it in the index specifications on the IX reference page of
the index file rather than including it in each and every index entry marker,
since a missing period in a marker (which can happen quite easily) would 
result in a second, unpunctuated entry in the compiled index. Just go to 
the IX reference page and find the SeparatorsIX paragraph. Add a period 
(or whetever other character you want to use as an entry terminator) 
at the very start of the paragraph, before the separator space. Then
regenerate the index.
 
-Fred Ridder