Author: a.d.bergi

Description:
Each category has its own sorting order (customizing of that is T30397), and when a category is shown the collation is splitted up by starting letters (of the sort key). For big categories and categories sorted by a date it would be very useful to change the behavior of that splitting prozess.
E.g. in a category where all sortkeys start with a year the sections should be titled with four digit numbers.

I think the easiest approach would be have a magic function where you can declare how many digits should be used to split the item list. So {{#categorysections:4}} would make "Hello World" stand under "Hell" and "1984 (book)" under "1984".

It also could be more flexible by defining in what ranges the rule should apply. E.g. {{#categorysections:4|1|9}} would make "1984 (book)" stand under "1984" and "984" stand under "984" cause they're in the range from 1* to 9*, but "Hello World" would stand under "H" as regular.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement