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K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity Expert
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Jun 19, 2022 2:14 PM UTC
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Order of entries in catalogues

In my post about Tagging and untagging objects Bob Niland states

«If one wants the null Style to float to the top of the Catalog menu, it appears that the name has to start with an ASCII numeral, perhaps "0". Perhaps: 0_{Empty}»

This puzzled me and therefore I tested these names of ¶ formats and got this order on my English FM:

!_Null

0Chapter-title

Äffchen

Body

bodytext

ztf-table-footnote

βgeuze
→ This is not the Unicode order (see the location of Äffchen before Body). It is ordered according to the index entries for English: <$symbols><$numerics><$alphabetics>

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      Bob_Niland
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      Jun 20, 2022 2:54 PM UTC

      re: SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On
      Yep. The
      C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 20■■\maker.ini
      was at installed with what I presume is the factory default of:
      SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=Off
      The
      C:\Users\■■\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\■■\maker.ini
      has no entry at all for that, thus using parent file default of Off.
      Adding the …=On expression makes it behave as yours does.

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      Bob_Niland
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      Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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      Jun 19, 2022 8:04 PM UTC

      Now that's odd, because on my machine, 0 is sorting before alphas, which sort before ! (as well as before . _ and =).

      I have not extensively tried Unicode names. Where FM supports the codepoint, they at least work.

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      K.Daube
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      K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
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      Jun 20, 2022 6:55 AM UTC

      Bob, I may have found the reason for this. In my local maker.ini I have this setting in [Preferences]:

      SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On

      Obviously defaault is Off - your sequence.

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        Bob_Niland
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        Bob_NilandCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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        Jun 20, 2022 2:54 PM UTC

        re: SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On
        Yep. The
        C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 20■■\maker.ini
        was at installed with what I presume is the factory default of:
        SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=Off
        The
        C:\Users\■■\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\■■\maker.ini
        has no entry at all for that, thus using parent file default of Off.
        Adding the …=On expression makes it behave as yours does.

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