[texhax] Misplaced headline with makeindex

[Stefan Löffler]

Hi,

On 2011-03-12 18:46, Donald Arseneau wrote:
> Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> writes
>> I am using makeindex to create an index in my document, however I find
>> that the index's headline ("Index") is placed lower on the page than
>> normal headlines (see also attached screenshot). So far, I didn't find
>> any configuration option to change this, and IMO it should not be the
>> default behavior. Does anyone here have any suggestions/insight?
> This was probably discussed recently on comp.text.tex, but
> under the memoir document class.  The subject was " Memoir: 
> Index header positioned too high", but google isn't searching
> for it properly.

Manual searching brought up
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/ab095da56c97850d
And indeed, the idxlayout package works like a charm (also for the
article and book classes).

Thanks a lot!
Stefan