Catherine Heyrendt wrote: > Now, I have the following problem. The entry appears twice in the index. > > It appears for the first time giving the page numbers of where the entry > is in footnotes. > > Then it appears a second time giving the page numbers where the entry is > in the main body of the text. > > Is there any way that I can convince it to adopt an all-in-one approach?
Your best bet is to use xindy instead of makeindex. With makeindex, you need some hacks to make it work, see this thread for explanation: http://groups.google.de/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/db7b96c84cbf4779/1a87f8217f89dba8 HTH, Jürgen