Re: Sorting by author name first, then by year

[Michael Heerdegen]

pietru@caramail.com writes:

> I have a texinfo file with blocks as below, sorted first by year, then
> by author
> surname using strings starting with "bibl-".  The contents of each
> block are embedded
> within "@ifset" and "@end ifset".
>
> Now I want to sort them, first according to surname, then by year, the
> earlier year
> put first.
>
> So I am looking to make a function that could do it.

I think `sort-subr' is the function to use.  The call could look similar
to that in the implementation of `sort-paragraphs' but that command
unfortunately doesn't allow to specify a predicate, which you need.

Do you know how to write an according predicate?

Regards,

Michael.