[publican-list] sortable lists, esp. glossaries

Jeff Fearn jfearn at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 04:01:23 UTC 2012


On 02/11/2012 01:58 AM, Fred Dalrymple wrote:
> Hi Peter --
>
> If I'm reading your post correctly... You're saying that simply invoking
> a locale-specific collating sequence during publishing (i.e., with no
> additional collating clues provided) may produce results acceptable to
> each locale?
>
> Unless anyone knows otherwise, it sounds like that hypothesis is worth
> testing: select/create a source document with enough collating edge
> conditions, format locale-specific versions, and have the results
> reviewed by locale-skilled readers.
>
> If it works, obviously it's a lot easier than building a new solution...

The link I posted to "a good explanation of the issues" is for the tests 
we ran using unicode collation.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2010-May/msg00025.html

Cheers, Jeff.




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