Closed JoeZiminski closed 2 months ago
I'm happy to make a PR but unsure of any unintended consequences.
I think it makes more sense to keep the order of any lists created by an author. So we can just have it return the list as is instead of a set for everything to avoid randomization of the elements.
Great thanks @nabobalis I will make a PR now.
Describe the feature
We have multiple authors on blog posts and would like to specify their order as appears on the postlist. At present we are using the
:author:
key in the blog post and:format: {title} by {author}, {date}
in theindex.rst
. Using this approach, the list of authors is randomised on the blog index.When building the postlist, this function strips the value names for display and returns as a set. Returning as set results in the order being randomised. If instead a list is returned, the order as specified in the blog header is maintained on the postlist.
Can this be changed to return a set, or at least changed only for author lists? Maybe there is another way to specify the authors in a non-random manner.
Proposed solution
_strip
returns a list instead of set.I'm happy to make a PR but unsure of any unintended consequences. Scope of change could be limited by having a separate function
_strip_list
that returns as list, and is used only in the author field.