RE: Index question

["Peet, Leslie" <LPeet -at- orbitz -dot- com>]

Thank you.  That does solve the pagination problem but ties the index to
the section before it.  I would prefer to have the index pagination
independent of the body of the document, i.e., in its own section.  Even
at one column, when I put in a section break before the index the
problem I described below returns.

I don't know if there is a solution, but I would appreciate any further
suggestions.

- Leslie

Leslie Peet
Technical Writer
312.894.6784


-----Original Message-----
From: Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security)
[mailto:David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:48 AM
To: Peet, Leslie
Subject: RE: Index question

Leslie:

For troubleshooting, try changing your index field (actually editing the
field code with the help of Help) to format it in a single column. I
believe you'll be changing something like this:

{ INDEX \c "2" \e " * " \h "A" }

To

{ INDEX \e " * " \h "A" }

When you specify two columns, the index will automatically include (or
generate?) a section break before it and a section break after it.

So changing to one column should eliminate these section breaks. If your
pagination and footers sort themselves out, then that's where the
"extra" section breaks are coming from.

I'm not sure, but I think the index field stores some section settings
from the section in which you create the field. So set your section up
the way you want it before you create a new index.

A second problem is that you won't see a header or footer for a page
that doesn't exist. I.E. in View > Headers and Footers, if you have a
two page index, but the actual index result (the body of the index) is
set for different first, you won't see that header or footer.

A trick I almost always use when solving section problems is to insert
at least three manual page breaks into each section (anywhere in the
section will do). That way I'm sure I've got a first, even, and odd
page, and will see the corresponding headers and footers.

Stand in each section of the finished index and verify the layout. Only
the first section of the index (containing the title) needs a different
first page. The index body only needs different even and odd (for a
recto-verso layout). The last section (after the index field i.e. after
the second section break) doesn't need one either.

Bear
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