Indexing in SIGIL, pt.2 - alphabetical disorder

roland1 · 12-21-2021, 03:55 PM

Gentlemen, ladies and esteemed colleagues. No, wait. Let me start again...

Hi folks: I'm noticing that when I make entries in the index that SIGIL does not like to always put them in alphabetical order.

Is this because of the html-related alphabetical order, matriarchy, or some other underlying preference that I'm not grasping at this point?

Here's what I'm looking at and this happens often —*note that as a subtopic of relationships, father should be ahead of mother alphabetically. Is it? You decide.

Any ideas? Is this Corona-related?

roland1 · 12-21-2021, 05:24 PM

Wild guess #1: is the alphabetical order of the sub-sub-topic the determinant? Note mother has a subtopic starting with "a" while father's sub-topic starts with "f".

Spooky.

KevinH · 12-21-2021, 06:02 PM

The Index code uses a LocalAwareSort. But that may not be used with sub categories. I can not tell by eyeballingthe code. Which locale are you using? Does Using the Index Editor column sort help.

Can you please start with a copy of your epub and then strip it and index down to make a very simple test case that can be used to track down the issue.

Tex2002ans · 12-21-2021, 07:05 PM

1. Create/attach a sample EPUB.

2. Give us example Index entries (exactly as they appear in Tools > Index > Index Editor).

That will help people debug and narrow down the exact issue. Like I said in the previous topic, it's a rarely touched piece of Sigil... and barely anyone uses it.

roland1 · 12-21-2021, 07:16 PM

I'm not using the index editor at all. I'm just hard coding the links within html files using the keyboard shortcut for "mark for index" and then generating a new index html file via the gui.

I'll see if I can recreate this issue with a sample file.

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12-21-2021, 03:55 PM	#1
roland1 Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 2137678 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: Canada Device: none	Indexing in SIGIL, pt.2 - alphabetical disorder Gentlemen, ladies and esteemed colleagues. No, wait. Let me start again... Hi folks: I'm noticing that when I make entries in the index that SIGIL does not like to always put them in alphabetical order. Is this because of the html-related alphabetical order, matriarchy, or some other underlying preference that I'm not grasping at this point? Here's what I'm looking at and this happens often —note that as a subtopic of relationships, father should be ahead of mother alphabetically. Is it? You decide. Any ideas? Is this Corona-related? Last edited by roland1; 12-21-2021 at 03:57 PM.*

12-21-2021, 05:24 PM	#2
roland1 Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 2137678 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: Canada Device: none	Wild guess #1: is the alphabetical order of the sub-sub-topic the determinant? Note mother has a subtopic starting with "a" while father's sub-topic starts with "f". Spooky.

12-21-2021, 06:02 PM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,645 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	The Index code uses a LocalAwareSort. But that may not be used with sub categories. I can not tell by eyeballingthe code. Which locale are you using? Does Using the Index Editor column sort help. Can you please start with a copy of your epub and then strip it and index down to make a very simple test case that can be used to track down the issue.

12-21-2021, 07:05 PM	#4
Tex2002ans Wizard Posts: 2,297 Karma: 12126329 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Forma, Nook	1. Create/attach a sample EPUB. 2. Give us example Index entries (exactly as they appear in Tools > Index > Index Editor). That will help people debug and narrow down the exact issue. Like I said in the previous topic, it's a rarely touched piece of Sigil... and barely anyone uses it.

12-21-2021, 07:16 PM	#5
roland1 Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 2137678 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: Canada Device: none	I'm not using the index editor at all. I'm just hard coding the links within html files using the keyboard shortcut for "mark for index" and then generating a new index html file via the gui. I'll see if I can recreate this issue with a sample file.

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