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    Can you be more explicit on this? I thought at first glance that
    it was simple to answer, but I don't understand what you mean
    by 'the indexer wouldn't merge the entries'.
    
    What BL was this in? The indexer in BL7 is smart about control
    sequences like {\slash} and ignores them when collating.
    
    patti

    The next response will the the _INDEX.TEX file. You can run it through
    (we used LAYERED) to see that the entries for "DEC/MAP" are not
    merged (refer to the .LN3 file).
    
    When I removed the line from TAG$$LOCAL_STRINGS that replaces the
    / with {\slash} and regenerated the index, the problem disappeared.
                                             
    Marty

\begintexinput
% DOC_INDEX version X1.00
% INDEX/GUIDE_HEADINGS/SORT=(LETTER)/IDENT/LOG/INPUT=group:[gordon.t1]DUMBPRO.BRN/OUTPUT=group:[gordon.t1]DUMBPRO_INDEX.TEX
\singleindex

\guideheading{A}
\inxentry{0}{Accounts}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{1}{OSI defaults}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{ACNT}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 9}}
\inxentry{0}{ALTPRI}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 9}}
\inxentry{0}{ANSI{\slash }IEEE Standards}{}
\inxentry{1}{DIS 802.4 (1985)}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}

\guideheading{B}
\inxentry{0}{Broadband}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 3}}
\inxentry{0}{BYPASS}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 9}}

\guideheading{D}
\inxentry{0}{DEC{\slash }MAP}{}
\inxentry{1}{accounts}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{DEC{\slash }MAP}{}
\inxentry{1}{network management concepts}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{1}{network management functions}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}
\inxentry{0}{DEC{\slash }MAP}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}
\inxentry{0}{DEC{\slash }MAP}{}
\inxentry{1}{privileges}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{DTQNA}{}
\inxentry{1}{definition}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}

\guideheading{E}
\inxentry{0}{Event logging}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}

\guideheading{H}
\inxentry{0}{Hosts}{}
\inxentry{1}{definition}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}

\guideheading{I}
\inxentry{0}{International Organization for Standardization}{}
\inxref{1}{See ISO}
\inxentry{0}{ISO}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}

\guideheading{L}
\inxentry{0}{Layer management entity (LME)}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{0}{Layer management interface (LMI)}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{0}{Local Directory Cache}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{0}{Loopback}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}

\guideheading{M}
\inxentry{0}{MAP}{}
\inxref{1}{See also DEC{\slash }MAP}
\inxentry{1}{benefits}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 1}}
\inxentry{1}{definition}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 1}}
\inxentry{1}{media access}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}
\inxentry{1}{standards}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}
\inxentry{1}{Topology}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 3}}
\inxentry{0}{MAP\$MOTSTRACE}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{0}{MAP\$TODRIVER}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{MAPQNACP}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}

\guideheading{N}
\inxentry{0}{NETMBX}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{Network management}{}
\inxentry{1}{agent}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{1}{concepts}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{1}{configuration and performance}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 3}}
\inxentry{1}{for subnetworks}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 7}}
\inxentry{1}{functions}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}
\inxentry{1}{layer management entity (LME)}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{1}{layer management interface (LMI)}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{1}{privileges}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{1}{setting up accounts}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{1}{task allocation}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 7}}
\inxentry{0}{Network management agent (NMA)}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{0}{Network manager software}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}
\inxentry{0}{Node}{}
\inxentry{1}{definition}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}

\guideheading{O}
\inxentry{0}{Open system}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}
\inxentry{0}{Open Systems Interconnection}{}
\inxref{1}{See OSI}
\inxentry{0}{OPER}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 9}}
\inxentry{0}{OSI}{}
\inxentry{1}{default account}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{1}{definition}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}

\guideheading{P}
\inxentry{0}{Parameters}{}
\inxentry{1}{modification}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}
\inxentry{0}{Privileges}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}

\guideheading{Q}
\inxentry{0}{Q-bus}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}

\guideheading{S}
\inxentry{0}{Station}{}
\inxentry{1}{definition}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 2}}
\inxentry{0}{Subnetworks}{}
\inxentry{1}{media access}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}
\inxentry{1}{types}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 3}}
\inxentry{0}{SYSNAM}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{SYSPRV}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 9}}
\inxentry{0}{System verification}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 5}}

\guideheading{T}
\inxentry{0}{TMPMBX}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}
\inxentry{0}{Token-bus media access}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 4}}
\inxentry{0}{Tracing}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 6}}

\guideheading{U}
\inxentry{0}{User privileges}{\hbox{1\foliodelim 8}}

\endindex

    This is under BL7.
    

Can you send me the INX file?

--Brian

    
    I was unable to reproduce this for a long time, but finally managed
    to do so. This bug was fixed between BL7 and BL8. 
    
    

    Yay! Thanks.
    

    speaking of indexes and bugs, I an example of 2 parts that consist
    of command references. Part I follows chapter 12 and Part II follows
    Part I.
    
    Chapters 1-12, Part I, Part II 
    
    In my Index, on page 1 of Part I, the page numbering is 13-1 instead
    of a defined prefix.  In the log file  a warning:
    
    IDX-W-TAGERR error processing the PREFIX tag on line 664 of the
    INX file. 
    IDX-W-CUTPRFX The page prefix was truncated to : . processing continues
    
    What's strange is that Part II has a page prefix but there were
    no errors with it.  Is this part of the same bug???                  
    I'm running BL7
    
    thanks,
    Bette JEan

    
    those problems were fixed in V1.0, but there is still a
    character-string limit on prefixes for use in the Index
    
    -pa