[Therion] statistics carto sort order request for 5.3.12

[Bruce]

With the addition of a third draughtsperson to our project, whose name comes
early in the alphabet, and who has clearly drawn much less than us two
oldies, it's become apparent that 5.3.11 sorts cartographers names
alphabetically rather than by length of centreline associated with their
drawings.

 

Not sure if this was the case with 5.3.10, but certainly the default sort
order for explo-length and topo-length changed with 5.3.11 as described here

http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/faq#why_do_peoples_names_sort_alphabe
tically_when_they_used_to_sort_by_length_of_cave_explored_and_surveyed

 

To make matters worse, I thought I would display only the 'top 2'
draughtspeople, 

  statistics carto 2    

and it dumped my name because it is alphabetically towards the end of the
alphabet, despite having drawn most of the cave (well maybe second most, but
at least 100x more length than the newcomer).  I may have a bias due to
conflict of interest, but it seems like an unsatisfactory situation to me
that the 'top two' cartographers is based on alphabetical rank rather than
drawing rank.

 

Is it possible to make the carto statistics syntax and behaviour consistent
with explo and topo statistics in 5.3.12?

A sample layout of mine below shows how they all work together, and how what
I am requesting might fit in.

 

layout LayoutStatisticsNormal 

#-----------------------  

  statistics explo all                 # all/off/number    # names of
explorers, or 'number' most significant explorers

  statistics explo-length hide  # on/off/hide        # adds each persons
exploration length and toggles sort type

  statistics topo all                  # all/off/number    # names of survey
team members 

  statistics topo-length hide   # on/off/hide       # adds each persons
survey length and toggles sort type

  statistics carto all                 # all/off/number    # names of
authors  

  statistics carto -length hide  # on/off/hide       # request to add each
persons carto length and toggle sort type

  statistics copyright all         # all/off/number   # names of copyrights


endlayout LayoutStatisticsNormal

 

Bruce

 

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