The "sort_as" attribute is not working in references.yaml

[zsofiaj]

I have several names in my references.yaml that are not sorting correctly per the automatic alphabetization on my bibliography page. For example, "van Marle" is sorting under V, but I want it to sort under M. I believe this was working in Quire v0, but I'm not completely sure. Here are some screenshots of how the citations appear on the page, and how I've entered them in references.yaml. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

[Erin-Cecele]

Hi @zsofiaj, Quire may not be sorting properly because you have two identical sort_as values. Try changing them to sort_as: Marle 1920 and sort_as: Marle 1923. See if that helps.

[geealbers]

Yes, @Erin-Cecele is correct that you'll want the sort_as values to be unique. Otherwise Quire could sort all the "Marles" in different orders every time you preview/build the project. And the use of years along with the name, as Erin suggests, is a good solution.

There is also though a bug in how Quire is handling the sort_as values. You can fix it by going to _plugins/filters/sortReferences.js in your project, and replacing lines 34 and 35 with these two lines, which you'll see are very similar to what's there, except for an extra set of sort_as options in the middle:

let a = sortById ? itemA.sort_as || itemA.id : itemA.sort_as || itemA.full
let b = sortById ? itemB.sort_as || itemB.id : itemB.sort_as || itemB.full

[zsofiaj]

Thanks so much, @geealbers and @Erin-Cecele! This worked great. I added dates to make all of the sort values unique (wish I had thought of that), and I replaced those two lines in the sortReferences.js file.