[NTG-context] registers, how to ignore quote marks
jbf
roma83537 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 01:30:41 CET 2022
The several responses to my floundering with the register have been very
helpful, though I would have to confess that I have ended up 'messing
with' things (suggested by Hans re the [key]) and getting a satisfactory
result in almost every case without always understanding why. But I can
say that I have the 'sorting' issue resolved if it is a main entry,
including if that entry is surrounded by quote marks or has one part of
that entry formatted differently (e.g. italics).
But I don't seem able to apply this to subentries! I cannot solve the
sorting of subentries that have special features (e.g. I might have
needed italics for part of a subentry, or the subentry is surrounded by
quote marks).
Here are my two situations (and in each case they appear out of
alphabetical order in the subentry list):
1. \index{animals+‘special kinds’}: in this case ‘special kinds’ appears
in the subentry list at the bottom of the list, after one that starts
with 'v'. I 'messed with' this by adding keys, e.g., \index[Animals]
etc. but the item disappeared from the index altogether.
2. \index{Plenary Council+{\it periti} (experts)}: in this case it is
the italicised /periti/ that appears out of place, after the letter 'i'
rather than after 'p'. Again I tried putting various keys but this did
not help.
I guess my confusion is this: I assumed that the [key] establishes the
literal string which determines sort order. That seems to be the case
for a main entry. How do I get it to work for a subentry?
Julian
On 29/1/22 21:39, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 1/29/2022 11:02 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
>> Thanks for this response. I'll have to work on this (but tomorrow...
>> it's late at night for me at the moment). I can see part of what you
>> mean: I can use, for example \index[myindex]{\it Book title} (Book
>> Author) and get the correct result, but not sorted properly, so I
>> have to understand how, as you say, to 'set the sort entry to the
>> unformatted version' which is not clear to me at the moment. I'll
>> tackle it on the morrow when I'm thinking more clearly!
> there is key and entry with key between []
>
> when sorting, the key wins but because there can be duplicates the
> entry itself is also part of the final sort key
>
> the accumulates sort key is sanitized and after that sorting happens
> in several stages (these can be defined / adapted) according to
> language, taking numbers into account and finally using the unicode
> ordering ...
>
> you can fool the system by messing with the [key]
>
> it's not the easiest subsystem (but it has a long history ... as with
> many subsystems the principles are not much different than mkii and
> the code seldom changes but of course evolved)
>
> Hans
>
>
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