Occasionally non-alphabetical indices

[Simons Mith]

the following index code fragment seems to be alphabetical by xhtml file name, which is not what I really want in the index itself:

 <a href="chapter01.xhtml#sigil_index_id_39">1</a></div></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">cover
 <a href="chapter04.xhtml#sigil_index_id_18">1</a>, <a href="chapter13.xhtml#sigil_index_id_51">2</a><div class="sgc-index-entry">portable
 <a href="chapter05.xhtml#sigil_index_id_24">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">structures
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_9">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">examples
 <a href="chapter13.xhtml#sigil_index_id_52">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">destroying
 <a href="chapter13.xhtml#sigil_index_id_53">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">distances to cover
 <a href="chapter13.xhtml#sigil_index_id_54">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">generating
 <a href="chapter13.xhtml#sigil_index_id_55">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">what to include

appears as:

    NPCs 1
cover 1, 2
    portable 1
    structures 1
    examples 1
    destroying 1
    distances to cover 1
    generating 1
    what to include 1
critter types

But then a bit latter on, this part of the index seems to work fine:

 <a href="chapter18.xhtml#sigil_index_id_32">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">time of day
 <a href="chapter18.xhtml#sigil_index_id_30">1</a></div></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">damage
 <div class="sgc-index-entry">critical hits
 <a href="chapter06.xhtml#sigil_index_id_37">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">Death Star
 <a href="chapter06.xhtml#sigil_index_id_38">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">downgrading
 <a href="chapter04.xhtml#sigil_index_id_39">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">entanglement
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_1">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">falling
 <a href="chapter13.xhtml#sigil_index_id_59">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">heroic sacrifices
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_4">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">ignore pips
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_3">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">ionization
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_11">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">keeping track
 <a href="chapter04.xhtml#sigil_index_id_38">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">knockback
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_2">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">structural
 <a href="chapter07.xhtml#sigil_index_id_10">1</a></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">upgrading
 <a href="chapter04.xhtml#sigil_index_id_40">1</a></div></div><div class="sgc-index-entry">damage limits

which appears as:

    time of day 1
damage
    critical hits 1
    Death Star 1
    downgrading 1
    entanglement 1
    falling 1
    heroic sacrifices 1
    ignore pips 1
    ionization 1
    keeping track 1
    knockback 1
    structural 1
    upgrading 1
damage limits
    brute force 1

TBH I don't even understand what sort criteria it could be using to behave like this.

[Simons Mith]

looking at it now it's posted, I do notice that 'cover' has a couple of hyperlinks associated with it, and that section goes wrong. 'damage', currently, does not. When I cleared the links from 'cover', and added a couple to 'damage', the problem moved.

[KevinH]

The Sigil Index Editor should allow you to sort by any column header before the save. Look for an triangle with its point down in the column headers row. Click on how you want things sorted.

[Simons Mith]

The Index Editor UI is completely empty at this point.
(Edit: Actually, it would be immensely helpful if individual entries were collated in the index editor as well.)

[KevinH]

Have you marked the terms for the index and generated it?

[Simons Mith]

Yes, generated and regenerated a few times while experimenting. All terms have been added manually so far. The Index Editor isn't proving very useful in this book because many of the terms to index are very mundane, and I only want to index the places where a term is defined, rather than everywhere the word happens to show up.

[KevinH]

To identify an index file, the epub uses guide or nav semantics to indicate which file is the index. If you mouse over and hover your cursor over the generated index file in BookBrowser does the resulting tooltip indicate that file has the Index semantic set?

I do not understand how the Index Editor is totally empty? I will play around with Indexes tomorrow to try to see if I can see what you are seeing.

[Simons Mith]

I've just been highlighting words of interest in the HTML files and pressing Ctrl-Shift-X, which brings up the Mark For Index pop-up window, and then I edit the desired index entry in that and click OK. Are my manual entries supposed to appear in the Index Editor?? They don't.

I'm on Linux - Sigil 2.8.5 - haven't upgraded yet

The Index file is the autogenerated Sigil one - its tooltip says

"OPS/xhtml/Index.xhtml (Index)"

It's also correctly auto-added itself to the OPS/package.opf file