Overfull hboxes in index

[Robin Fairbairns]

> Generating the index for a project, I get a lot of "overfull hbox" error
> messages.  The words that are causing these errors have all been placed in a
> \hyphenation{} section in the preamble, but although this helps in the body
> of the text, it doesn't seem to help in the index.  Should I correct the
> .idx or .ind files?

the problem is probably that the first word of a paragraph doesn't get
hyphenated.  a .ist that inserts \hskip 0pt after every \item,
\subitem, etc., would be in order.