How to use reverse alphabetical order in automatically generated navigation links for Quarto website?

[banskt]

Description

In a Quarto website, I am using the Diátaxis Framework for navigation, as explained in the hybrid navigation. For the sidebars, I am using automatically generated links. The relevant section of my YAML file looks like:

  sidebar:
    - title: "Journal"
      style: "docked"
      collapse-level: 1
      search: true
      background: light
      contents:
        - journal/index.qmd
        - auto: journal/*

WIthin the journal directory, I create entry for each day with filename YYYY-MM-DD.qmd. As mentioned in the documentation,

Order is alphabetical (by filename) unless a numeric order field is provided in document metadata.

I want the latest documents at the top, therefore I need a reverse alphabetical order. Is it possible to use reverse alphabetical order in automatically generated navigation links?

[cderv]

I don't think so.... 🤔

@dragonstyle to we allow customizing the rendering without providing manually the list of content ?

[dragonstyle]

Right now, the only way to customize the ordering is to provide the order in the document metadata itself...

Currently listings provide some flexibility in the way that items are sorted (though I realize that the presentation as a grid/table may not be what you're looking for). https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html#sorting-items

[banskt]

Thanks for your answer. I am not looking for the listing but the ordering of the navigation menu. It will be great to have this feature in some future release.

[mcanouil]

You can use a pre-render script to write your sidebar contents in the order you want.

[dweng0]

is it worth creating an extension for this? Would people find it useful?