Index

An alphabetical table of the contents of a book. The index is generally placed at the end of the volume, and set in letter about two sizes less than that of the work. It is always begun on a right-hand page, unless space is unusually valueable, or the appearance of the work not considered as of consequence. In setting an index the subject line should not be indented, but if the subject make more than one line, all but the first should be indented about an em. Where several index figures are used in succession, a comma is put after each folio; but to save figures and commas, the succession of the former is noted by putting a dash between the first and last figures—thus, 4–8. Again, if an article has been collected from two pages the folio of the second is supplied by sq., or sequente, and by sqq. or sequientibus, when an article is touched upon in succeeding pages. A full point is not put after the last figures because it is thought that their standing at the end of a line is a sufficient stop. Neither is a comma or a full point placed to the last word of an article in a wide measure and open matter with leaders; but it is not improper to use a comma at the end of every article where the figures are put close to the matter, instead of running them to the end of the line.