From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to sort in Lua using locale?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:28:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3B0A6F.7090506@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimiGHyHw8EUUgaLFijRGvAtskE083-5pxDdfZBo@mail.gmail.com>
On 12-7-2010 12:30, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to create a document using some functionality that is
> pretty close to creating an index, but the built-in index creation
> code doesn't suffice. My main question is: how do I sort strings using
> the built-in sorting rules for the current language?
\startluacode
document.whatever = { names = { } }
function document.whatever.sortnames()
local names = document.whatever.names
local split = sorters.splitters.utf
for i=1,#names do
local name = names[i]
name.split = {
split(name.last),
split(name.first),
}
end
sorters.sort(names, sorters.comparers.basic)
end
function document.whatever.flushnames()
local names = document.whatever.names
local previous = false
for i=1,#names do
local name = names[i]
local letter, current = sorters.firstofsplit(name)
if previous ~= current then
previous = current
context.section(letter)
end
context.person(name.last,name.first)
end
end
document.whatever.names = {
{ first = "Hans", last = "Hagen" },
{ first = "Hartmut", last = "Henkel" },
{ first = "Taco", last = "Hoekwater" },
{ first = "Caron", last = "Haček" },
{ first = "Ančka", last = "Car" },
{ first = "Ana", last = "Car" },
{ first = "Anita", last = "Car" },
{ first = "Matija", last = "Čop" },
}
sorters.setlanguage("sl")
document.whatever.sortnames()
document.whatever.flushnames()
\stopluacode
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