Selecting Other Sort Plug-ins

Figure 42: First table/pass of sorting configuration for the Estonian alphabet

In order to edit the tables that define the sorting behaviour for the table-based sorting system, select the menu option “Dictionary/Configure sorting”, then click on the table-based sorting method in the list under “Configured sorting methods”, and click on the “Configure ...” button. The configuration dialog for the table-based sorting will appear, allowing you to define alphabetic characters, their ordering, and the precedence of for instance diacritics or case differences.

Note: Table-based sorting is rather complex; a good way to familiarise yourself with the system is to study and depart from the existing default configuration.

Selecting Other Sort Plug-ins

The table-based sorting system is just one “sorting plug-in” in TLex. A different plug-in would be used to sort, for example, Chinese characters. In order to make use of a different sort plug-in, or even to use a differently configured instance of the same table-based sorting plug-in, firstly open the “Configure sorting” dialog, shown in Figure 43.

The bottom half of the sorting configuration dialog displays a list of all sorting configurations which have been set up for this dictionary. The top half of the dialog displays which of these sorting configurations are actually currently in use by the language(s) in your dictionary. In the above screenshot, depicting an Estonian – Chinese bilingual dictionary, the Estonian side of the dictionary