Using lyx to sort alphabetically

mcdk · Post by **mcdk** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 2:12 pm

Hi there

I am looking for a way to make Lyx auto sort a list of text alphabetically - like the way you can do it in Libreoffice by choosing Menu and Sort.

Is there a way to do this in Lyx?

Thanks.

Michael

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mcdk · Post by **mcdk** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:04 pm

Nobody? I could really use some help with this issue

Post by **Johannes_B** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 7:08 pm

As far as i know, LyX can't do it.

Post by **scottkosty** » Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:13 am

It's not built-in to LyX, but you can implement the functionality using pLyX:
https://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem#toc7

mcdk · Post by **mcdk** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:59 pm

Thank you both for your reply

scottkosty wrote:It's not built-in to LyX, but you can implement the functionality using pLyX:
https://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem#toc7

I have tried looking at it, but are yet not good enough with Lyx to really know how to enable Plyx - but I will try and see if I can get it to work somehow

dajare · Post by **dajare** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 4:33 pm

Of course you want to do this in LyX, but since that isn't possible (not easily, anyway), one option would be to use an editor that includes this function.

You don't say what platform you're on, but Atom is a cross-platform editor which can use a sort plugin (there are others, too).

Not ideal, but if one must fire up another app to get this job done, then Atom would be one good way of doing it. Lighter, anyway, than going into LibO, or Word.

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