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Richmond.

The "key" field lists the chars of interest, however many there are. I sorted those alphabetically before prepending to the "main" sorted list just because it seemed appropriate.

Can you modify my handler to maintain the key order? Let me know if you need a hand.

Craig

Richmond. Here is a stack that does (I think) what you want, but with a readable script. :D And anyway I disliked having to rely on double space as a delimiter, since that way lies madness). The controlling order of chars ("ST" and then the rest of the alphabet), as per your post (currently "STABCDE...

Richmond. I rarely see how you approach things. And has this topic morphed into something entirely different? Anyway, I think I see what you are doing, that is, based on the line ordering of letters in fld "ordure"(I do like how you named that) you are sorting the words in a field of text according ...

Richmond,

The answer to your problem is in the other thread, Ruritanian letters have unicode values. You can sort away.

What is a "slope class"? FontStyles are things like Plain" and "Bold".

Craig

Hey, there is a Ruritainium font, and unicode contains it. For example, "A" is U+0041.

Done. You can sort away.

Craig

Richmond. So Ruritania is an imaginary world derived from three novels starting with "The Prisoner of Zenda". This means the alphabet does not really exist. But there is a published imaginary alphabet. Why not simply attach a number to each Rumanian letter, sort those pairs numeric and then strip th...

Hmmm. I see it.

Richmond, what is your issue?

Craig

Sparkout.

It sounds like the alphabet is Elbonian. I do not think they follow ordinary conventions.

Craig

Maybe I misread.

Your alphabet is unicode-based? If so, what is the issue? Is the codePoint order of that alphabet not, er, ordered?

Craig

Richmond. Klaus implied what you already said, that is, you have to explicitly specify the "order" of "letters" of your alphabet. Then you can create a list of such letters that are paired with a number. Once you have that, then a custom function can sort it. If this Martian alphabet is entirely you...

ChatGPT: According to the release notes for LiveCode 10.0.2 (Indy/Classic), here is what we know about macOS compatibility: Version 10.0.2 is listed as a release candidate (rc-1) at the time of the announcement (April 17, 2025) alongside version 10.0.1 stable. The blog states that “we have been doin...

I have an Indy license (10.0.2) from way back, but do not use it, since I have the Create subscription. What is the latest version of Indy? Or might that one work?

Craig

The OP is biding his time...

Craig

We can only wait and see. Your reply was terrific. We will find out what or who it impressed.

Craig

Anyone think the OP is a warm-blooded being?

Craig