Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 266)

246 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools
Format your index
The format (appearance) of your index is controlled by two primary tools of Nisus Writer Pro.
• The settings in the Configure Indexes dialog as explained below.
• The Paragraph Styles of your document’s Style Sheet explained in “Modify a style” on page 100.
Figure 276
The Configure Indexes dialog
Determine the appearance of what separates the various sections of your index
You can put any character you want in the Heading format text edit box. However none of these
will increment except for an "Uppercase A".
1. Click your insertion point in the Heading format text edit box and type the character(s) you
want to have appear between each “alphabetical” section of the index.
You can use dingbats (any character you can find in the Special Characters palette) to set off
the alphabetic headings so that they can appear as (for example)
A
You can use any Paragraph style that appears in your document to determine the attributes of
the header. Nisus Writer Pro creates a new style called Index Heading and chooses that as the
default style for these headings. You can modify that style in the Style Sheet view of Nisus
Writer Pro, or, you can…
2. Choose the Paragraph style you want from the Heading paragraph style pop-up menu.
3. Click OK.
Determine what separates the index entry from its reference
1. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Configure Index Styles….
2. Choose the index style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the Configure
Indexes dialog.
The default character is a tab.
3. Enter the character(s) you want to have appear in the Before page number text edit box.
4. Click OK.