Rich Shepard wrote:
I have a situation now where the main heading is at the foot of the left index column and all sub-headings are at the top of the right index column. This may well change as I build the index, but it may not. Is there a command that can be used to prevent splitting the head and sub-items across columns or pages?
Not that I know. I solved such problems by using additional space because LaTeX processes every command inside the index-box.
If you have e.g. -------------------------------------- Mineral Water Bloody Mary Perrier Gin Tonic Selters
Longdrinks --------------------------------------
but want -------------------------------------- Mineral Water Longdrinks Perrier Bloody Mary Selters Gin Tonic --------------------------------------
then add some space after the "Selters" entry, like
Mineral Water ! Selters\vspace{xxcm}regards Uwe
