Merge remote branch 'smcv/ready/sort-package'

Conflicts:
	debian/NEWS

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
index 557441c0b..5a3919dea 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ Supported fields:
   be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things
   differently in this case.
 
+  An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
+  [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(title)`:
+
+	\[[!meta title="The Beatles" sortas="Beatles, The"]]
+
+	\[[!meta title="David Bowie" sortas="Bowie, David"]]
+
 * license
 
   Specifies a license for the page, for example, "GPL". Can contain
@@ -37,6 +44,11 @@ Supported fields:
 
   Specifies the author of a page.
 
+  An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
+  [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(author)`:
+
+	\[[!meta author="Joey Hess" sortas="Hess, Joey"]]
+
 * authorurl
 
   Specifies an url for the author of a page.
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn
index 697818a2a..5c6cfcc2b 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting.mdwn
@@ -5,9 +5,23 @@ orders can be specified.
 
 * `age` - List pages from the most recently created to the oldest.
 * `mtime` - List pages with the most recently modified first.
-* `title` - Order by title.
-* `title_natural` - Only available if [[!cpan Sort::Naturally]] is
-  installed. Orders by title, but numbers in the title are treated
+* `title` - Order by title (page name).
+[[!if test="enabled(sortnaturally)" then="""
+* `title_natural` - Orders by title, but numbers in the title are treated
   as such, ("1 2 9 10 20" instead of "1 10 2 20 9")
+"""]]
+[[!if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
+* `meta(title)` - Order according to the `\[[!meta title="foo" sortas="bar"]]`
+  or `\[[!meta title="foo"]]` [[ikiwiki/directive]], or the page name if no
+  full title was set. `meta(author)`, `meta(date)`, `meta(updated)`, etc.
+  also work.
+"""]]
+
+In addition, you can combine several sort orders and/or reverse the order of
+sorting, with a string like `age -title` (which would sort by age, then by
+title in reverse order if two pages have the same age).
+
+Plugins can add additional sort orders, so more might be available on this
+wiki.
 
 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]