Index foible

[KMcLauchlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

G'day all.  A beginner question...  (blush)

I think I saw this a couple of years ago... when I didn't need it. Now I 
can't find a keyword reference that brings up anything useful.

I'm revising somebody else's document. It has a two-column index, 
with Alphabet separator headings and then just two levels of IX entry 
per alphabet section.  Pretty standard.
The Level_1IX and Level_2IX items should all have the text of the 
individual entry near the left margin of the current column, and the 
page number (or page range) aligned at the right margin (with a tab 
In between, to make it happen).

Two problems:

1)	After Generate/Update, the tabs need to be inserted, by hand, 
for each of many hundreds of entries;
2)	once the tab is manually inserted in the generated IX entry, ONLY 
the Level_1 page numbers actually jump over to their rightful location.
The Level_2 page numbers just stay put (over to the left of the 
current column, immediately beside the text), no matter HOW many 
tabs I insert between text entry and page number.

In Paragraph Designer, BOTH Level_1IX and Level_2IX paragraphs 
DO have a "Right Tab" marker in the proper location. Similarly, when I 
look to the Reference Pages, the "archetype" Level_1IX and Level_2IX 
entries look to be properly constructed, and have Right Tab stops 
in what look like the appropriate places. In fact, the only difference 
between the two is that the Level_2 has a small leading indent before 
the text of the entry. Level_1 starts flush left.  Big deal.

What am I overlooking, here? The construction is similar in the ToC, 
which works fine. . . after a Generate/Update, all the created ToC entries 
come in and lie down where they should, and all their respective page
numbers obligingly take their proper places over by the right margin. 
It LOOKS to me as though the IX entries should be as obliging as 
the similarly laid-out ToC entries.  The reason they refuse to co-operate 
is non-obvious to me and when I searched archives I must have asked 
for the wrong keywords.

What have I missed in the IX, such that all the Level_1's need their 
page numbers positioned by hand, and all the Level_2's refuse to 
accede even to hand-placed tabs.

Thanks for pointing me to some obvious thing that I'm overlooking.

/k



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