[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

[jbf <roma83537@gmail.com>]

And indeed this is the best solution I could find, though it obviously 
meant that something like '29 April 2017' was no good for sorting on... 
it has to be the US date format YY-MM-DD

Julian

On 30/1/24 06:15, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 27.01.2024 um 10:05:
>> Am 26.01.24 um 23:46 schrieb jbf:
>>> I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction for a 
>>> separate TOC which needs to be in chronological order at the back of 
>>> the book (i.e. not in page number order, although I need the page 
>>> numbers to show up in the TOC. There is the normal TOC at the front 
>>> of the book, according to chapter titles.
>>>
>>> I have succeeded in defining a separate TOC to place at the back, 
>>> but have not succeeded in the chronological order! Here is what I 
>>> have done:
>>>
>>> \definelist[chron][criterium=all,alternative=c]
>>>
>>> At the back of the book:
>>>
>>> \placelist[chron][criterium=all]
>>>
>>> Then at an appropriate point after each \startchapter I have placed 
>>> (as an example):
>>>
>>> \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City}
>>>
>>> This gives me my list, but in page number order. How do I get the 
>>> date (e.g. 29 April 2017) to be the ordering factor in the list. I 
>>> assume it will be something to do with criterium, but am clueless at 
>>> the moment on how to indicate this.
>>
>> I don’t know if it works this way (the wizards will know a way), but 
>> for special needs I’m (ab)using indexes:
>> just add something like \index[2017-04-29]{Speech, Panama City} to 
>> your chapter command and setup the index at will.
>
> Lists have a sort option but this is no use here because you can't use 
> the title to have a chronological sorted list.
>
> \starttext
>
> \placelist[section][order=title]
>
> \section{Hans}
>
> \section{Peter}
>
> \section{Anton}
>
> \stoptext
>
> Using the register mechanism as you suggest seems to be the best 
> option in this case.
>
> Wolfgang
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