On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, John Cowan wrote: > In the Arabic index, however, the indexed words appear with a page > number before (that is, to the right) of them. Is this regular > practice in Arabic indexing, or some bizarre bidi glitch?
No, it's not regular practice, AFAIK. But it may be the practice somewhere I don't know of, or done intentionally for artistic values. I will be very disappointed to find that it has been done mistakenly: publishers usually care a lot about these matters. BTW, I would love to see a screenshot. roozbeh

