Thanks for the suggestion Tony - it's not really worth the effort at this 
time for the reasons you imply.  


On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 8:17:29 PM UTC-4, TW Tones wrote:
>
> Amreus,
>
> A Quick and simple answer is one of the many reason roman numerals are not 
> used very often today.  is there size is not directly related to the size 
> of the number and they cant be sorted.
>
> I suggest a macro to convert roman numerals to decimal and store this in a 
> field and use that field to sort.
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
> On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 1:37:16 AM UTC+10, amreus wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have some tiddlers which have a common title but ending in a unique 
>> roman numeral. Is it possible to create a list of titles sorted by the 
>> roman numeral?
>>
>> I'm attempting use `sortby` 
>>
>> tiddler: RomanNumerals with:
>> list: I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII 
>> XIX XX
>>
>> tiddler: Contents
>> text:
>>     {{{ {prefix[CommonTitle] +sortby{RomanNumerals!!list}] }}}
>>
>>
>> Any hint is appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>

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