hypertext marker location in generated index

[Suzanne Bolduc]

hi!

I'm editing a manual in unstructured FM 7.2 and until recently I was
under the impression that someone forgot to set up the index to make
its entries clickable.

however I came to realize that, in the generated TOC, the hypertext
markers are located at the start of each line, and you can click
anywhere on the line to access the related content, whereas, in the
generated index, the markers appear *after* the associated entry, and
the clickable area does exist but it is very small (it is limited to
the exact location of the marker).

e.g. in the TOC:
TFeatures and Benefits>..............................................................2
vs. in the IX
BenefitsT>.....................................2
(where T is the marker, > stands for a tab)

when there are more pages, there is a marker before each subsequent
page number, but again the clickable area is very limited: only the
space just before the page number is clickable...
e.g.
BenefitsT>.....................2,T>9,T>101
(this part is more mysterious to me -- I expected that the whole page
number would be clickable since the marker is located *before* the
number.)

Is this normal? Would someone know of a solution? Would using IXGen or
some other indexing tool help?
(I scoured the FM online help to no avail... Google wasn't helpful
either, and neither was Adobe's knowledge base -- I must be missing
something...)

MTIA
Suzanne Bolduc