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May 8, 2013
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Sort order for Simplified Chinese (pinyin)

  • May 8, 2013
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FrameMaker 10 (Windows)

It seems that if I specify the sort order for Simplified Chinese (pinyin) on the reference page,

index entries that start with "i" and "v" are not shown under their corresponding group titles.

(I assume that this may be due to the fact that pinyin words never start with these letters.)

If I have an entry that starts with an English word like "IP," it appears under the "J" group.

I want the entry to appear under the "I" group. How can I do this?

I have the IX reference page set up as follows:

GroupTitlesIX paragraph

Symbols[\];Numerics[0];A;B;C;D;E;F;G;H;I;J;K;L;M;N;O;P;Q;R;S;T;U;V;W;X;Y;Z;

SortOrderIX paragraph

<$symbols><$numerics><$alphabetics><$pinyin>

I've also tried:

SortOrderIX paragraph

<$symbols><$numerics><$pinyin>

Thanks in advance.

Tak Osato

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Participant
December 27, 2013

Just want to piggyback on this issue; I am also trying to set up Simplified Chinese index but the sort order came out different from what my linguist suggested.

Tak, have you found any solution?

osato_regAuthor
Known Participant
December 27, 2013

mahat_sf,

No, I have not. I am manually editing the index every time I update it.

Bob_Niland
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 27, 2013

> I am manually editing the index every time I update it.

Seems like it would be a modest one time effort, but less on-going effort, to use the trailing [sort-hint] markup on the Index Marker > Marker Text to work-around what appears to be a bug.