[Issue] User-defined index in alphabetic order

[aldemo]

In text I want to make an several indexes to automatically put in tables. All is well but the items are published in sequential order instead of alphabetic. As I understand there is only one fixed table available in alphabetical order and cannot be multiplied.

Any solution?

Jan Aldemo
Spain

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Can you upload a sample file: just a few pages with some entries and the index (see How to attach a document here)?

[aldemo]

Greatfull for your swift response.

Please check my file appended.

[acknak]

This is my understanding: you can have as many custom indexes as you want, with items in order of appearance, but there can be only one alphabetical index. I don't know any way around that, other than some kind of extra processing to re-arrange the index.

[aldemo]

Then I haven't missed anything. I'll go around it by marking the list and use the sort function before printing. When updated it's back to original state.

Could be a subject for improvement to allow the user more options in creating indexes, if I'm not the only person with this interest.

Many thanks

[RoryOF]

There has been a long outstanding request for this
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=6401

It ought be possible to write an extension to scan through a file (the code for this exists in a number of macro related notes), identify and extract each already generated index, sort it - a bubble sort is one of the elementary programming exercises - and then replace the original index with the sorted version. Once this was working the sort subroutine could be improved to use a faster sort method.

Code for Inserting a ToC or other Index is given in Pitonyak's "Useful Macro Information for OpenOffice.org" in sections 7.18 & 7.24 (repeat of 7.18?). As I understand it, this code causes OO's internals to generate the index, but it might be a starting point.