[NTG-context] Index sorting again

[Richard Gabriel]

For example, the DocBook XSLT stylesheets (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/) solve it this way:

Symbols (anything unsortable, including numbers)
A
B
...
Z


---
I'd suggest a bit better way:

Symbols
1
2
...
9
A
B
...
Z


-Richard 


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From: Hans Hagen [mailto:pragma at wxs.nl]
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [mailto:ntg-context at ntg.nl]
Sent: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:33:41 +0200
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Index sorting again

Richard Gabriel wrote:
  > Hello Hans,
  >
  > I'd like to remind the 2 persisting problems with the index sorting.
  >
  > 1. Numbers are sorted under A
  > 2. Symbols are sorted under the first letter which follows.
  >
  > See the attached test file.
  > Both these issues are independent on language and on the expansion type.
  >
  > Proposed solution:
  >
  > 1. Sort numbers into separate divisions
  > 2. Sort symbols to a special division called "Symbols"
  >
  > Could you please look into it?
  > May I help you any further (except the attached test file)?
  the question is ... where do they need to end up 
  
  Hans 
  
  
  
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