Thanks Hans. For the sake of any future users who may have stumbled across this post I want to point out that if you want the list of sections to appear at the end of your document you need to use "criterium=previous"


\placelist[section][criterium=previous,order=title]



On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 04:52, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 11/7/2019 12:13 AM, Kerry Sainsbury wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> If sections are just lists, and lists can be sorted, how can I sort a
> list of sections?
> My actual goal is to generate an 'index' that is made up of section
> headings.
> Here's my attempt that does not work.
here's one that does ...

\setuphead[section][number=no]

\starttext

\startchapter[title=foo]

     \placelist[section][criterium=local,order=title]

     \startsection[title={Beta}]  \input sapolsky \stopsection
     \startsection[title={Alpha}] \input sapolsky \stopsection
     \startsection[title={Gamma}] \input sapolsky \stopsection

\stopchapter

\stoptext

it's an experimental feature already present for a while but probably
unknown

Hans


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