sorting alpha and numeric sections (Sky 8)

[AElfwine Mischler]

I hope someone can help me figure this out -- or a good workaround.

I'm doing a multivolume index. Making a master index with all the volumes in one file, and then splitting off each volume into its own file. Each volume will have its own index, and there'll be a cumulative index in the end -- way down the road.

Each locator has three sections plus page number: Volume, Book, Chapter, page. (This is a translation of a 15th century work that was divided into short books and chapters in the pre-printing press days.) The first "books" are introductory material that are not numbered in the text. There are actually three separate items, and I want to call them Intro A, Intro B, Intro C. (I might call them something more descriptive, such as their initials, but it's hard enough to sort them like this.)

So I have 1:Intro:A:2 and later in the book I have 1:1:1:75. Volume 1 Book 1 is, of course, sorting before Volume 1, Intro.

1:1:1:75

1:Intro:A:2

How can I get the Intro pages to sort before book 1? I've tried putting hidden 1 and hidden 0,  but that didn't work. I can put 0 (zero) instead of Intro, but I don't want 0 to print instead of Intro. This is a humongous project with multiple indexes, and I'd really like to get this right without having to fix things in the Word files. (I might not live long enough to finish the last volume and do the cumulative index.)  

I'm using Sky 8, and Translation does NOT work for me in the locator field -- although the box is checked for it to work -- so that is probably not a viable option. Is there something else I can do??

Thanks.

AElfwine Mischler

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[Barry Campbell]

Hi AElfwine

 

Depending on How Sky Index works you may heve a number of otions. You’d need to try them out to see if they work, alternatively contact Sky Software.

Option 1.

Does Sky evaluate negative numbers, can you use -1, -2 etc.

 

Option 2

Have a look at an ASCII table, i.e. http://www.asciitable.com/

There are characters that appear before numbers. Some such as () are likely to be checked by sky. You may be able to use others to achieve what you require.

 

Best wishes

 

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[sese...@gmail.com]

Wow...sounds like the five-vol. "Sagas of Icelanders" thing I started indexing and got bogged down with in Sky 7 a few years back. I became a caregiver for Milady and never went back to it. I lost her in July, so maybe I'll use it as therapy and try again. So no, Aelfwine,  I don't have an answer but I'm looking forward to a fix, too.

Jack in CO/US