Index Numerals Reference Page font settings NOT working

[Rob Shell]

Dear Karen:
I am quite familiar with this problem. The problem arises since FM can and
does create two or more reference pages which on first sight deal with Index
Specifications.
This arises I think because of multiple format imports. The result is that
one or more of these Index Specification pages are "dead". By dead I mean
they have no effect on the target text. 
There are two workarounds. One is to delete the dead reference pages.
Usually the live Index Specification is on the last reference page. 
 If you working from the start page onwards it is likely that you are
editing dead index specifications and all you have to do is find the" real"
Index Specification. 
The second workaround is to go to the last page of the reference pages and
there edit your format, leaving the dead index specifications in situ. This
is the lazy option...Ok if you are working alone. 
I do not understand at all why TOC and Index Specs do not have their own
dedicated tables as is the practice throughout the reference page range.
Such tables would be stable and allow for editing as does the well-designed
master page determination table.

 It is a good idea of course to fix your template file first otherwise you
will forever be importing dead Index Specifications, but notice that
importing the corrected Index specifications does not solve the problem as
the reference pages are not automatically overwritten. Only named reference
pages are overwritten. The answer  here is to create blank reference page in
your template file with the same name as those pages you wish to get rid of.
I hope this rambling helps.
Rob

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