Re: [NTG-context] (again) bug in index sorting?

2 Nov 2014

      On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:45:25 +0100
Robert Blackstone  wrote:
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On 2 Nov 2014, at 12:00 ,  Pablo Rodriguez  wrote
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I have the following sample:
\setuppapersize[A6]
\starttext
\index{tipografía digital}
\index{tipografías}
\index{tomato white}
\index{tomatoes red}
\index{idioma+de un pasaje}
\index{idioma+del documento}
\completeindex
\stoptext
Latest beta from 2014.10.31 12:47 sorts the index entries the
following way:
tomatoes red
  tomato white
Of course, this sample doesn’t make sense, but the entries in
Spanish do. All of them are wrong sorted.
Stable version from 2014.01.03 00:40. The different sorting
criterium seems to have been introduced in beta from 2014.10.22
16:23.
Or shouldn’t be the first word sorted first and then the second one
in index entry?
Could anyone be so kind to confirm the bug?
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo
Hi Pablo,
I cannot confirm any bug, but what I would do anyway is to force the
sorting in whatever order I want by using \index[]{} with the
argument specifying the order. So your example could be:
\starttext
   \index[tipograf\'{i}adig]{tipograf\'{i}a digital}
   \index[tipograf\'{i}as]{tipograf\'{i}as}
   \index[idiomadeu]{idioma+de un pasaje}
   \index[idiomadel]{idioma+del documento}
   \completeindex
   \stoptext
if you want tipografias digital before tipografias.
This works with all mkiv and mkii versions I have, including the ones
that I installed today. I use it for a rather comlex three-level
index and it works flawlessly (for me).
Because I have become obsessed with the APA style rules recently (;-),

\startquotation
Alphabetize letter by letter. When alphabetizing surnames, remember
that “nothing precedes something”: Brown, J. R., precedes Browning, A.
R., even though i precedes j in the alphabet.

Singh, Y., precedes Singh Siddhu, N. 
López, M. E., precedes López de Molina, G.
Ibn Abdulaziz, T., precedes Ibn Nidal, A. K. M.
Girard, J.-B., precedes Girard-Perregaux, A. S.
Villafuerte, S. A., precedes Villa-Lobos, J.
Benjamin, A. S., precedes ben Yaakov, D.
\stopquotation

Of course, these are names, a favorite subject that I share with Hans
these days...

Alan

Re: [NTG-context] (again) bug in index sorting?

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