Jean-Pierre,
Just a quick idea not thought through
In the pre-release there is the sortby operator.
Perhaps having a sort macro
\define sorter() A a B b C c D d E é e ....
Then sortby<sorter>
You may need to split[] the letters to obtain the first letter etc.
Regards Tones
On Wednesday, 21 October 2020 09:50:11 UTC+11, Jean-Pierre Rivière wrote:
>
> In French, a glossary is as simple as in English except for the letter E
> where we also some entry starting with É to take into account.
>
> This can be done like this:
>
> <ul>
> <$list
> filter="[tag[glossaire]prefix<initial>]=[tag[glossaire]prefix[é]]+[sortan[]]"><li><$link/></li>
> </ul>
>
> where initial is a variable containing "e" (my glossary is all lowercase,
> and each word in the entry has a tiddler tagged "glossaire").
>
> But I want to build my glossary automatically. How can I make a special
> case for the E letter? My difficulty is to extend my filter (this is the
> part starting from the = sign). I am open t any way to achieve this.
>
> I have tried to build a string containing
> "=[tag[glossaire]prefix[é]]+[sortan[]]" and to add it if initial is e, but
> this does not work as I have written it:
>
> \\define glossy()
> <$set name="initial" filter="[{!!title}lowercase[]]">
> <$set name="special-case" value="=[tag[glossaire]prefix[é]]+[sortan[]]">
>
> <$set name="special"
> filter="[<initial>compare:string:eq[e]then<special-case>]">
>
> special <$macrocall $name="special"> now defined
>
> <ul>
> <$list filter="[tag[glossaire]prefix<initial>]<$macrocall
> $name="special"/>">
> <li><$link/></li>
> </$list>
> </ul>
> </$set>
> </$set>
> </$set>
> \end
>
> When I use <<glossy>> in the "E" tiddler, all I can see is:
>
> special =[tag[glossaire]prefix[é]]+[sortan[]]
>
> and nothing else. the thing printed seems OK but is that what it seems to
> be? The process clearly seems to be interrupted.
>
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