Re: tabulated-list sort icon is reversed

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-07-30 13:33, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'm afraid that while I figured out the problem, I don't have any solution
> to offer :-(

The trick used on old macs was pretty good: instead of a solid triangle (which 
can mean "pyramid" or "arrow"), use increasingly narrow or increasingly wide 
layers:

This means "sorted small to large":

   _
  ___
 _____
_______


This means "sorted large to small":

_______
 _____
  ___
   _

Alternatively, we can just write which comparison operator we used: ≤ or ≥.  
When the sorting indicator is ≤, each element in the list is ≤ to the next one, 
and conversely with ≥.

Or we can use a horizontal symbol with increasing or decreasing bars: ▂▅▉ means 
increasing, ▉▅▂ means decreasing.

Apologies for the ASCII art.

Clément.