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Re: Unstable sorting of index items
From: |
Patrice Dumas |
Subject: |
Re: Unstable sorting of index items |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:35:36 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:15:55PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> --- a/makeinfo/index.c
> +++ b/makeinfo/index.c
>
> Thanks for the fix, but the makeinfo implementation in C is no longer
> maintained.
>
> I'm guessing the replacement in Perl (in the tp/ directory of the
> sources) also does a stable sort of index entries. Patrice, can you
> confirm?
I think so. The strings are converted to plain text, and if they are
the same the order in the document is used, such that index entries
appearing before are also before in the @printindex.
--
Pat