Den tis 30 jan. 2024 09:06Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> skrev:

> Am 29.01.24 um 21:45 schrieb jbf:
> > 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
>
> How did you expect a simple sorting algorithm to sort by verbose dates?
> BTW, YYYY-MM-DD is ISO 8601.
>

Just out of curiosity from an occasional user: is it possible in indices to
specify a separate sort key and displayed term as you can with makeindex? I
remember back in the nineties I used numeric sort keys for a Sanskrit index
where the letters were Latin (with lots of diacritics) but the sort order
was Indic (a, ā, i, ī, ... k, kh, g, gh, ...). I assigned a two-digit
"number" (01, 02, 03, ...) to each grapheme and the sort key consisted of
hyphen-separated such numbers.


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