Re: \index eats \par?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:08 PM 10/25/2001 +0200, David Antos wrote:

>         Hi all,
>
>using \index at the end of a paragraph (like this one ;-) eats all \par-s
>after that. Is this a bug or a feature? (In human words: the paragraphs become
>joined together into one.)
>\index{really don't know why}
>
>It can be easilly overriden using \index{} before the end of the paragraph,
>but I consider this quite unpleasant.

actually this is a feature; as berend says: use \index before the word to 
index (think of this: if such a word hyphenates, you want the ref on the 
page where the forst part ends up).

the idea is as follows:

\chapter {something}
\index{oeps}
\index{more}

some text

now this works well, if the \par would not be eaten, there would be a write 
node and thereby interference in the spacing (in some situations resulting 
in too much whitespace for instance.

Hans
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