[sword-devel] imp2ld and alphabetization

[Daniel Owens]

I am working on creating dictionary modules based on the Free Vietnamese 
Dictionary Project. The Vietnamese-English dictionary is working, but 
some words are not in alphabetical order, and I am trying to find out 
how to maintain the original alphabetization.

I noticed this when all of the words beginning with a vowel having 
diacritics/tones or beginning with a "đ" were sorted to the end of the 
dictionary. The DAT file maintains the original order, which is more 
accurate. It must be that the IDX file generated by imp2ld creates its 
own index and alphabetizes according to it's own scheme. The entries of 
each word are tagged as ThML. Here is a slightly random entry:

$$$ác bá
<entry key="ác bá" type="main" id="n20"><b>ác bá</b><br />[noun]<br />- 
Cruel landlord, village tyrant<br /></entry>

Is there a way to keep imp2ld from changing the order of the index? I am 
happy to send someone the IMP file if that helps. I pasted the CONF file 
at the bottom of this message.

Daniel

CONF File:

[VietAnh]
DataPath=./modules/lexdict/rawld4/vietanh/vietanh
ModDrv=RawLD4
Encoding=UTF-8
SourceType=THML
SwordVersionDate=2007-10-27
Version=1.0
Lang=vi
Description=FVDP Vietnamese-English Dictionary
About=- This is the Vietnamese-English dictionary database of the Free 
Vietnamese Dictionary Project. It contains more than 23.400 entries with 
definitions and illustrative examples.\par\par- This database was 
compiled by Ho Ngoc Duc and other members of the Free Vietnamese 
Dictionary Project 
(http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/Dict/)\par\par- Copyright (C) 
1997-2003 The Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project\par\par- This program 
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the 
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your 
option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that 
it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
TextSource=http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/Dict/