alphabetize greek and hebrew, closes #26140

story645 · story645 · commit d83a448cee94 · 2023-06-18T12:09:51.000-04:00
diff --git a/doc/sphinxext/math_symbol_table.py b/doc/sphinxext/math_symbol_table.py
@@ -5,18 +5,18 @@
 
 symbols = [
     ["Lower-case Greek",
-     6,
+     4,
      r"""\alpha \beta \gamma \chi \delta \epsilon \eta \iota \kappa
          \lambda \mu \nu \omega \phi \pi \psi \rho \sigma \tau \theta
          \upsilon \xi \zeta \digamma \varepsilon \varkappa \varphi
          \varpi \varrho \varsigma \vartheta""".split()],
     ["Upper-case Greek",
-     8,
+     4,
      r"""\Delta \Gamma \Lambda \Omega \Phi \Pi \Psi \Sigma \Theta
      \Upsilon \Xi \mho \nabla""".split()],
     ["Hebrew",
      6,
-     r"""\aleph \beth \daleth \gimel""".split()],
+     r"""\aleph \beth \gimel \daleth""".split()],
     ["Delimiters",
      6,
      _mathtext.Parser._delims],
@@ -105,7 +105,12 @@ def render_symbol(sym):
 
     lines = []
     for category, columns, syms in symbols:
-        syms = sorted(list(syms))
+        if category == "Hebrew":
+            syms = sorted(list(syms), key=render_symbol, reverse=True)
+        elif category.endswith("Greek"):
+            syms = sorted(list(syms), key=render_symbol)
+        else:
+            syms = sorted(list(syms))
         columns = min(columns, len(syms))
         lines.append("**%s**" % category)
         lines.append('')
