Hi Deri,
On 2023-08-21 01:39, Deri wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I have created the tar files again with the latest sort.
>
> Both are intended to be used with groff 1.23.0, but the plus version includes
> the latest gropdf, so produces more compact output. It also has the narrower
> gap between the heading on the intro(1) page, I have not investigated the
> reason yet!
>
> Also I have a small bone to pick with your "official" sort order - it's not
> consistent. Most people expect a short word like "cat" to appear before a word
> like "catatonic", and we see "hosts" does appear before "hosts.equiv", so why
> does "man" come after "man-pages"! I've also strayed from the official sort
> order in the 6.05.01 pdf by arranging the latin and iso character code pages
> in proper numerical order so "latin10" comes after "latin9" rather than
> following "latin1". I hope this makes sense.
Is "official" the Book for 6.5.1? Or is it the scripts/sortman in git HEAD?
I've found that scripts/sortman had this problem that you report, and fixed it:
commit a04e93998bebba77ac799dd89c11042c25f2e2d2 (HEAD -> master, korg/master, alx/main, main)
Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Aug 21 23:55:18 2023 +0200
scripts/sortman: Sort 'cat' before 'catatonic'
Reported-by: Deri James <deri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/scripts/sortman b/scripts/sortman
index 546a7943d..a8f70bab5 100755
--- a/scripts/sortman
+++ b/scripts/sortman
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ sed -E '/\/intro./ s/.*\.([[:digit:]])/\10\t&/' \
| sed -E '/\/intro./! s/.*\.([[:digit:]])\>/\11\t&/' \
| sed -E '/\/intro./! s/.*\.([[:digit:]])([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]]*\>)/\12.\2\t&/' \
| sed -E ' s/\t(.*)/&\n\1/' \
+| sed -E '/\t/ s/\.[[:digit:]]([[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]]*)?\>.*//' \
| sed -E '/\t/ s/\/[_-]*/\//g' \
| sed -E '/\t/ s/[_-]/_/g' \
| sed -E '/\t/ {N;s/\n/\t/;}' \
-| sort -fV \
+| sort -fV -k1,2 \
| cut -f3;
$ ./scripts/sortman << __EOF__
man7/cat.7
man7/catatonic.7
man7/cat_or_dog.7
man7/cat_alike.7
man7/hosts.7
man7/hosts.equiv.7
man7/intro.7
__EOF__
man7/intro.7
man7/cat.7
man7/catatonic.7
man7/cat_alike.7
man7/cat_or_dog.7
man7/hosts.7
man7/hosts.equiv.7
Is this order a good one? Should maybe cat_alike go right after cat?
Cheers,
Alex
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