Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Should your index show up in your table of contents?
This is a matter of taste. Some omit the index in the TOC,
because "everybody knows that the index is at the end".
Aslo, the TOC is usually not in the TOC either - everybody
knows it is at the start - and if you're looking at the TOC
then you already found it - no need to list it then!
Still, some people put the index in the TOC, especially
if they have lots of appendixes. Or perhaps because
they don't know much about typographic tradition.
There are even those who list the TOC for "consistency".
The way I see it, the biggest problem with listing too much
optional stuff in the TOC is that sometimes the one extra
item is the one that forces a page break in the TOC. And
an extra page is cumbersome, inelegant,
and sometimes costly to print too.
Helge Hafting
