On 07/31/2016 12:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 03:54:59 -0400 > Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> On 07/31/2016 02:36 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I think I asked the question wrong before. Here's all I want to >>> know: You have an entire subsection, about carrier pigeons, and you >>> want it to show up in the index with its headline (subsection >>> headline) as the beginning page and its final paragraph as the >>> ending page. You create it with Insert=>Index_entry. The text >>> inside the inset of the beginning entry for this subsection looks >>> like the following: >>> >>> Carrier pigeons|( >>> >>> Where am I supposed to put that inset: >>> >>> A) At the very beginning of the subsection heading? >>> B) Ad the very end of the subsection heading? >>> C) Somewhere else? >>> >>> If the answer is C, could you please elaborate? >> I don't know for sure, but I think I'd put it at the beginning of the >> first paragraph >> of text in the section. It can be a bad idea to put this kind of thing >> inside moving >> arguments, such as section headings. The point is that the content of >> the \section >> macro ends up getting copied to the TOC, to page headings, etc, and >> that can >> cause problems. >> >> Richard >> > Thanks Richard, > > That sounds perfectly logical. I'm a tiny bit worried that the index' > beginning page number could be the first word of the first paragraph of the > section, which happens to be at the top of the page, so the section's heading > isn't visible on that page. But a look throughout my book showed not one > single instance of a page break after a section heading but before the > section's first paragraph.
This should never happen. Richard
