I'm not sure if this thread got lost back when I sent it, but I just wanted
to bump this thread again. The authortitle sort sequence detailed in the
previous e-mail is working as expected, and it may be a helpful addition to
the publ-aut.lua file for general use. In case the last e-mail was lost,
I've repeated the code below:

```
publications.sortmethods.authortitle = {
    sequence = {
        { field = "author",    default = "",           unknown = "" },
        { field = "title",     default = "",           unknown = "" },
        { field = "booktitle", default = "",           unknown = "" }, --
if this is an untitled section (e.g., introduction, foreword, preface) of a
book or a review of a book
        { field = "maintitle", default = "",           unknown = "" }, --
if this is an untitled section or volume in a multivolume collection
        { field = "volume",    default = "",           unknown = "" },
        { field = "part",      default = "",           unknown = "" },
        { field = "date",      default = "9998-13-32", unknown =
"9999-14-33" }, -- some specifications allow date instead of year, month,
day
        { field = "year",      default = "9998",       unknown = "9999" },
        { field = "month",     default = "13",         unknown = "14" },
        { field = "day",       default = "32",         unknown = "33" },
        { field = "index",     default = "",           unknown = "" },
    },
}
```

Joey

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 10:57 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140511@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Actually, since some categories (such as @review and @suppbook from
> biblatex) do not necessarily have titles of their own, it may be best to
> include a few other fields in the sort sequence to accommodate them. The
> following sequence may be better:
>
> ```
> publications.sortmethods.authortitle = {
>     sequence = {
>         { field = "author",    default = "",           unknown = "" },
>         { field = "title",     default = "",           unknown = "" },
>         { field = "booktitle", default = "",           unknown = "" }, --
> if this is an untitled section (e.g., introduction, foreword, preface) of a
> book or a review of a book
>         { field = "maintitle", default = "",           unknown = "" }, --
> if this is an untitled section or volume in a multivolume collection
>         { field = "volume",    default = "",           unknown = "" },
>         { field = "part",      default = "",           unknown = "" },
>         { field = "date",      default = "9998-13-32", unknown =
> "9999-14-33" }, -- some specifications allow date instead of year, month,
> day
>         { field = "year",      default = "9998",       unknown = "9999" },
>         { field = "month",     default = "13",         unknown = "14" },
>         { field = "day",       default = "32",         unknown = "33" },
>         { field = "index",     default = "",           unknown = "" },
>     },
> }
> ```
>
> It is also worth noting that in order for the volume field to sort
> properly, its values will have to be padded with leading zeroes; otherwise,
> an entry with volume = {2} will be sorted after one with volume = {10}. To
> accommodate this, specifications would need to remove the leading zeroes
> when they typeset volume and part numbers.
>
> Joey
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 2:02 PM Joey McCollum <jmccollum20140511@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had to make another update to the general publications support code
>> in order to implement a feature of the SBL rendering. Denis Maier has
>> opened some issues on the context-sbl GitHub repo (
>> https://github.com/jjmccollum/context-sbl) to offer some helpful
>> suggestions about needed features and bug fixes. One issue was that SBL
>> should order list entries by author and title. Thankfully, there is already
>> an authordate sortmethod defined in publ-aut.lua (probably to support the
>> Chicago rendering), so I was able to use it as a template for the
>> following authortitle sort sequence:
>>
>> ```
>> publications.sortmethods.authortitle = {
>>     sequence = {
>>         { field = "author",  default = "",     unknown = "" },
>>         { field = "title",   default = "",     unknown = "" },
>>         { field = "date",  default = "9998-13-32",     unknown =
>> "9999-14-33" }, -- some specifications allow date instead of year, month,
>> day
>>         { field = "year",    default = "9998", unknown = "9999" },
>>         { field = "month",   default = "13",   unknown = "14" },
>>         { field = "day",     default = "32",   unknown = "33" },
>>         { field = "index",   default = "",     unknown = "" },
>>     },
>> }
>> ```
>>
>> I added this to publ-aut.lua because publications.sortmethods.authoryear
>> is defined in that file, but if another location is more appropriate, then
>> feel free to let me know, and I can move it! Otherwise, if this looks okay
>> to include in a future update, then feel free to incorporate it!
>>
>> Joey
>>
>