[publican-list] sortable lists, esp. glossaries

Fred Dalrymple fdalrymple at redhat.com
Thu Feb 2 13:52:33 UTC 2012


Cool, I'll take a look as I proceed. 

thanks -- 

Fred 

----- Original Message -----

> Hi, I just remembered we had some code in place to test the perl
> module
> Unicode::Collate [1]. You need to edit XmlClean.pm (either in the
> source
> and rebuild or you can just do it where it's installed) and change:

> -my $test_collate = undef;
> +my $test_collate = 1;

> Unicode::Collate is part of core perl on most platforms.

> That will enable Glossary sorting, which is run during the build, so
> the
> output will be sorted but the source won't be touched.

> If you run clean_ids the Glossary source will be sorted.

> It's only set-up to sort glosslist, but very similar code could be
> used
> to do other types of lists or with some extra work more complex
> glossary
> structures.

> Unicode::Collate has built in functionality to allow overriding the
> default sorting algorithms, but I've not had time to play with them
> :(

> Cheers, Jeff.

> 1: http://search.cpan.org/~sadahiro/Unicode-Collate-0.87/

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