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Type or select a special character that appears between a reference and a cross-reference, as in Animals. See also
beasts. The default is a period followed by a space. Determine formatting for this character by switching or editing the corresponding level style.
Type or select a special character to separate the first and last numbers in a page range (such as Animals 38–43). The default is an
en dash. Determine formatting for this character by switching or editing the Page Number style.
Type or select a special character to appear at the end of entries. If Run-in is selected, the specified character appears at the end of
the last cross-reference. The default is no character.
Change the sort order of indexes
You can change the sort order of languages and symbols. This is especially useful for Greek, Cyrillic, and Asian languages. It’s also useful if you
want to change where symbols appear in your index. If you want symbols at the end, you can move the Symbol category to the bottom of the
priority list.
Changing the sort order affects the sort order in the Index panel and in the index stories that are generated afterwards. You can create multiple
indexes with different sort orders. For example, you can generate an index in German, change the sort order, and then generate a separate index
in Swedish — just make sure Replace Existing Index isn’t selected when you generate the index.
1. Choose Sort Options from the Index panel menu.
2. Make sure the items you want sorted are selected.
3. To determine the type of language script used, click the item under Header Type and choose a different option from the menu.
For example, for Cyrillic, you can choose Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, or Ukrainian. For Chinese, you can choose Pinyin, which is
primarily used for Simplified Chinese, or Stroke Count, which is primarily used for Traditional Chinese.
4. To change the order of a language or symbol, select it in the list, and then click the Up or Down buttons in the lower right part of the list.
Items that are higher on the list are sorted before lower items. Any characters from languages that aren’t included in the Sort Options dialog
box are sorted under symbols. For example, if you have Greek text in your document but don’t include Greek under Sort Options, any
indexed Greek text will appear under Symbols.
Sort order of Japanese and Korean indexes
When creating index entries for Asian languages, note the following:
Asian languages use different sorting convention based on their specific typographic rules.
When making an index for Japanese text, the yomi for index entries in the Topic Level box should be entered in the Yomi box using full-width
hiragana and katakana. It is not necessary to input the yomi for full-width hiragana, katakana, alphanumeric characters, some symbols, half-
width alphanumeric characters, or index entries that only have symbols in the Yomi box. Entries input in the Topic Level box are sorted. In
some cases, when full-width and half-width symbols are mixed in an entry, sorting may not take place as expected. An appropriate, yomi
should be entered in these cases.
Half-width katakana or kanji cannot be input in the Yomi text box. However, full-width symbols, such as and , can be input.
Hiragana and katakana are distinguished and hiragana is sorted before katakana. Upper- and lowercase alphabetic characters are also
distinguished, and uppercase characters are sorted before lowercase.
If the same characters are input in the Topic Level box, they are handled as separate index entries if a different yomi is entered. For example
if “Cat” is input as an index entry with a reading of “Neko” in katakana, and then input a second time with a reading of “Neko” in hiragana, two
index items for “Cat” will be generated. This feature can also be used to classify the same term under separate index topics. For example,
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