Re: indexing puzzle

[John Negus johnanegus@xxxxxxxx]

"Kerala J. Snyder" wrote:
>
> .. Right now I am experimenting with a very
> small list of words and just four of the files, named 15, 16, 17, and 18. I
> created a parent file with these four file names (they are actually a bit
> longer) in that order. The index that resulted was correct for files 15 and
> 18, but the page numbers for files 16 and 17 were each one number too high.
> I looked through all the formatting for those files and could find nothing
> wrong. Then I wondered whether there was something about being in the
> middle of the series, and I changed the order in the parent file to 17, 16,
> 15, 18. (I left 18 at the end, because the formatting for the index was
> there.) This time 17 and 16 were correct, but 15 and 18 were n+1 for each
> page given. So the third and fourth in the series were wrong this time.

Correct. But one can also read the two error patterns as sharing a
common element - the files which were out by 1 page being the ones
following 15 & 16 ..

I don't know how many times I haven't cussed Xy and other software only
to find later that the mistake was mine. But your mileage may be
better.


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