The values of `title` and `nav_order` can be numbers or strings.
Jekyll gives build failures when sorting on mixtures of different types,
so numbers and strings need to be sorted separately.
Here, numbers are sorted by their values, and come before all strings.
An omitted `nav_order` value is equivalent to the page's `title` value
(except that a numerical `title` value is treated as a string).
The case-sensitivity of string sorting is determined by `site.nav_sort`.
Pages with `nav_exclude: true` were included when sorting on `title` or `nav_order`. That could cause build failures when the type of value of the field differs from that on other pages, as reported in https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs/issues/406.
Pages with `nav_exclude: true` or no `title` are never displayed in the navigation, so removing them from `pages_list` cannot break existing sites. This change also allows the removal of some tests in the code. (The indentation of the code should now be adjusted, but that has been deferred, to restrict the size of the diff for review.)
For testing, the title of `404.html` has been changed to the number `404`, the page `docs/untitled-test.md` has been added, and `nav_sort_order` has been set to `case_sensitive`. Those updates give build failures with the current version of `_includes/nav.html`, but not after the suggested changes.
It will still be possible for build failures to occur due to sorting fields of *non-excluded* pages with differing types of values (e.g., `nav_order`a mixture of numbers and strings). To make the code completely safe will require relatively complicated changes,.
Added a configuration option to determine whether the sort order is case-sensitive.
The default is case-insensitive.
To test:
- open `/just-the-docs/docs/utilities/` in the browser,
and check that the navigation links in `Utilities` are sorted alphabetically;
- in `docs/utilities/layout.md', change the preamble to `title: layout`,
and check that the links in `Utilities` are still sorted alphabetically;
- add `nav_sort: case_sensitive` in the configuration file,
and check that the link to `layout` is now listed last under `Utilities`.
It appears nav_exclude only works on top level navigation items. I needed it to work at the child level as well. I believe these changes accomplish that for the child and grand_child levels.
Love this theme. I've used it a few times. Apologies if this pull request is not according to convention. This is the first time I've done it on someone else's code. Thanks!
When `nav_order` is omitted, the order of nodes at each menu level (and in the auto-generated TOC) is alphabetical by `title`, instead of random.
Any nodes with a specified `nav_order` precede all nodes at that level where it is omitted.
Note that `nav_order` fields must have a uniform site-ide type: integers and strings cannot be mixed, otherwise Jekyll reports errors.
The implementation filters the ordered and unordered pages from `site.html_pages`, sorts them separately, and concatenates the resulting arrays.
- Trimmed whitespace between html elements
This reduced one of my files from 850KB to 115KB
- Do not sort the whole list of pages on every iteration
This made build 3x faster
