Following the topic of Selection Order, I think I figured it out.
Attached is MTJOIN.LSP
;; By John Uhden (11-20-04) dedicated to "Redtfeldt"
;; Note: this WAS a very simplistic version with
;; no accounting for missed picks, no (while) loops,
;; and no locked layer checking.
;; Embellished (08-21-05); usage granted to VNHA
;; Rev. (07-30-17 to 08-03-17) to take a selection set of text/mtext and sort it in descending Y order
;; It presumes that strings ending with a period should be treated as the end of a paragraph.
;; It does not (yet) try to decipher paragraph formatting like for numbered indentations.
;; You guys and gals can try to figure that out.
;; No, I did not add locked layer checking, but it does provide Undo control.
;; I especially like the highlighting of the primary text object.
;; The global OK ranges from 0 to 13 for my testing 'cause I don't use VLIDE (sorry, Doug).
BTW, I spent a lot of wasteful time looking for the alleged "extra right paren" that kept it from loading.
Neither TextPad nor VLIDE indicated any mismatched parentheses.
Turns out I had typed a simple period (".") after a right parenthesis. Never seen that one before.
