Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:38 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > ​... > Being engaged in thermodynamics it is nice to know how entropy is said > in Urdu. My former boss has a large collection of "vapour-liquid > equilibrium" translated into many languages. How is it in Urdu? > ​...​ (Taking a brief therm

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

2018-05-18 3:15 GMT+02:00 Kamal Abdali : > Thanks, Dominik. I had seen your > https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2016/07/getting-xindy-to-work-for-iast-encoded.html > before during a Web searching. But a member of this group has kindly > promised to write a xindy piece for Urdu. So instead of trying to do

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

Thanks, Dominik. I had seen your https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/ 2016/07/getting-xindy-to-work-for-iast-encoded.html before during a Web searching. But a member of this group has kindly promised to write a xindy piece for Urdu. So instead of trying to do the same also on my own, I am trying to still m

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

A while back, I had a similar issue, and I made some notes about how I got the sorting I needed. See here: - https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2016/07/getting-xindy-to-work-for-iast-encoded.html ​ -- Professor Dominik Wujastyk ​,​ Singhmar Chair

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

Zdeněk, Thanks for responding promptly and offering to help. The Urdu letters, in their sorting order, are as follows: آ ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن ں و ہ ھ ء ی ے As you mentioned the following letters never start a word: ھ ء ے And ں occurs only at th

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

I do not know how to do it in imakeindex but I could do it in xindy. I have an Urdu-Hindi dictionary so I can find the sort oder of most characters but I do not know where to put bari yeh (ے), dochashmee he (ھ) and maybe a few more characters that never appear at the beginning of the word. This is

[XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

I'm using polyglossia and imakeindex to produce an Urdu document. The sorting order of letters in the index is wrong. The order is according to Arabic, but Urdu has about 9 more letters which are being pushed after the Arabic letters in the index. I couldn't find an option to fix this in the imakei