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Re: Indexing a 212-page tech document using WORD '03

Subject: Re: Indexing a 212-page tech document using WORD '03
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:45:59 -0700


Word would disregard a section
break before the Heading 1 for an index and insert a Continuous Break. We
were constantly having to manually reinsert a section break.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

The section break before a Heading 1 for an index has nothing to do with the two section breaks Word inserts as part of the {Index} field. In fact, it has nothing to do with the index at all.

Remember that section breaks control the text that *precedes* them. So the section break before the Heading 1 for the index controls the chapter *before* the index, not the index itself.

text { xe "index entry" }<paragraph marker>
----Section Break (Next Page) controls preceding text----
"Index" (a Heading 1 paragraph)<paragraph marker>
{ INDEX \c 2 \* mergeformat }<paragraph marker>
<end of file, controls text since previous section break>

When you update the index field, this becomes

text { xe "index entry" }<paragraph marker>
----Section Break (Next Page) controls preceding text----
"Index" (a Heading 1 paragraph)<paragraph marker>
----Section Break (Continuous) controls Heading 1 paragraph above----
index entry, nn<paragraph marker>
----Section Break (Continuous) controls body of index----
<paragraph marker>
<end of file, controls paragraph marker above>

By the way, this happens only if you use an index option (like two-column output) that requires the additional section breaks; if not, they aren't added by the {index} field. I forgot to mention this point in earlier messages in this thread.

--David

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