Eric, Thanks for that explanation! I had not absorbed that concept properly.
A small test shows that when using *sort[toc-order]* or *nsort[toc-order]* - the empty/non-existent toc-order values *go to the top of the list*, followed by those that have a value of 0, then the other numbers below. So depending on what one wants, doing a *!nsort[toc-order]* might accomplish what is needed. Otherwise, perhaps use the Tiddler Commander Plugin <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywiki/YQU3ATb5r3k> to add the field and the wanted values to all the tiddlers without that field quickly. Regards On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 8:44:45 PM UTC+7, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 4:04:57 AM UTC-7, S. S. wrote: >> >> I haven't understood what you mean by "sort[toc-order]" >> > > The second parameter of the toc-selective-expandable macro uses filter > syntax to apply a sort order to the set of tiddler being displayed at each > level of the tree. > > "sort[toc-order]" means "sort the list of tiddlers by the value in the > "toc-order" field of each tiddler. > > Thus, if each tiddler has a "toc-order" field containing a number then > when those tiddlers are shown in the tree, they will be sorted based on > those numbers. > > The problem is that tiddlers where the "toc-order" field is missing (or > blank or non-numeric) are sorted AFTER the tiddlers that do have a defined > value for "toc-order", and Jamie was asking how to get these un-numbered > tiddlers to default to being placed BEFORE the sorted ones. > > Note: for his purposes, Jamie should be using "nsort[toc-order]", which > does a NUMERIC sort, rather than an ALPHABETIC sort. With alpha sorting, a > sequence of numbers like "1 2 3 10 11 21 22" will be sorted as "1 10 11 2 > 21 22 3". > > However, just like the sort[...] filter, nsort[...] also puts > missing/blank/non-numeric values at the end of the list. So, although > nsort[...] is correct, it still doesn't solve the original problem. > > -e > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/08173d4d-cfc9-4123-b732-cbf022838f31%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
