Sorry for the bother, Wolfgang. I think I have the answer now (see my
message earlier by about 30 seconds). I had not realized that the textstyle
key in \setupregister could take a command for positioning the head as well
as its actual style.

Alan

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 18.03.2012 um 17:38 schrieb Alan Bowen:
>
> Sorry: My effort escaped without a subject line.
>
> In placing the heads and subheads of indices, \index defaults to
>
> Head    locator
> Head
>     subhead    locator
>
> I need to get the subhead without repeating the Head, as in
> Head    locator
>     subhead    locator
>
> How can I do this?
>
>
> Example needed!
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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