Re: Do not merge index entries with equal sort keys?

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > I am wondering if it wouldn't be better to have non-alphabetic
> > characters at the end of the index instead of at the beginning.  I'd
> > have to go see what books from O'Reilly and Pearson do to see what's
> > normal in the publishing world.
>
> The index of “The LaTeX Companion”, third edition (Addison-Wesley),
> which has a length of 150(!) pages, starts with 'Symbols', followed by
> 'Numbers', then 'A', 'B', etc.
>
>
>     Werner

So then we can leave well enough alone, with the symbols first.