From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: polish sorting
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:38:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6C60D7.5050604@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100818160856.GB13324@aides>
On 18-8-2010 6:08, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating some sorting tables. While researching this topic I
> stumbled on the Polish dictionary sorting rules: if two strings are
> equal except for case then the one gets precedence that begins
> lowercase.[1] (This seems to apply to the Swedish order as well but I
> have no means to verify that. Apparently, my German dictionary (from
> 1991) follows the same rule without explicitly stating so.)
>
> Context seems to prefer it the other way round, so I modified two
> functions from sort-ini.lua to handle that; but I'm not happy with
> this solution.
>
> So my question: is there already, or could we have some mechanism
> to influence the details of sorting in context?
adapting the sorter is no option
grep for "-- uppercase after lowercase" in sort-lan ... you can define a
sort vector that deals with it
Hans
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 16:08 Philipp Gesang
2010-08-18 22:38 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-08-18 22:48 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-19 8:13 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-19 9:41 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-19 10:35 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-19 11:13 ` Hans Hagen
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