On 4/19/2006 1:49 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >On 4/18/2006 7:02 PM, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: >> would it be possible to enhance either promptPackage() >> or the default indexing mechanism for packages >> so that -- if it exists -- (the contents of) file >> <pkgname>-package.Rd is sorted first in >> >> * the .dvi / .pdf documentation file >> * the .chm documentation file >> * the package 00index.html documentation file
>They already sort first in the last of those. I don't think it is >really possible in the index of a .chm file; they are alphabetical >sorting only, as far as I know. (The package topic does sort first in >the main contents page, which is the same as the 00index.html file.) Yes, you are right: the first two cases are already settled in a completely satisfying way [even with "+","-"-type methods!]. Sorry to have stirred you up --- I should have tried first. >It probably makes sense in a .dvi/.pdf, I tried out with an example now: at least for this case my request still applies ... >but as far as I recall, at the time I thought those were produced >by the shell script for Rd2dvi, and it just seemed like too much trouble >to change the collation order there. >In fact, now I look closer I see they are produced by the Perl >script tools/pkg2tex.pl so it shouldn't be hard to port the changes I >made to Rdlists.pm over. I'll take a look. would be very nice; thank you very much Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
