Carlos wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Garst R. Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx
>
> Juergen Vigna wrote:
> >
> > On 26-May-2000 Carlos wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm a user of Lyx.
> > >
> > > I think that with the current Lyx 1.1.4fix3 released (May21, 2000)
> > > it is not possible ('is it true? I think so') to make Lyx or Latex (any
> package)
> > > to alphabetically sort the rows of a table, with, for example,
> > > a list of names or a list of words.
> > >
> > > I'm a teacher and I need to handle in alphabetical order the names
> or/and
> > > surnames of my students, lists of words, vocabularies, strings... every
> day.
> > >
> > > Is it possible in the future, in other version of Lyx?
> > >
> >
> > Maybe, but don't count on it, as there is a lot of other important work
> > todo (obviously we would accept a patch for this if it's made in a clean
> > way and for the tabular insets as the normal tabulars are doomed to
> > dissapear :). In any case I'll put your request in my todo folder.
> ...a solution in Lyx, in my opinion, can be:
> first: I'm a user. I select "n" lines of text in 'Itemize' environment
> or similar;
> second: I press a button (or clic in a menu) and ...voilą!: all the lines in
> alphabetical order.
> third: I select all the lines again and I convert them in a table, if I
> need a table.
> All (one, two, three) in seconds.
> Carlos.
Offer your students an A to code it.
Garst
