Anyone know a way to get proper alphabetic sorting where there is leading punctuation e.g.
I have two suggestions; a quick and dirty solution, and the real solution:
1. Quick and dirty: if there is a whitespace character between the leading inverted exclamation mark and the first letter of the word, then you could add the inverted exclamation mark into MC's "list of definite articles to exclude" from sorting. Normally definite articles are words like "the", "a", "le", "la", "les" etc. but you could hijack the same logic to exclude leading punctuation. The only requirement is that there must be whitespace between the character and the word you want to sort on.
2. Real solution: you need to ask the MC guys, (it would normally be Matt), to add leading punctuation marks (inverted exclamation mark, inverted question mark, inverted comma, etc.) to the list of characters that are considered as "leading whitespace" for the purposes of sorting.