#18 Better name for non-letter letter group

[Joachim Schrod]

The non-letter letter group is is named "default". This
name is output at the start of an index.

This is a bad name. What is a better name?

For texindy, one should output a macro anyhow, to be
adapted by babel and german et.al...

[Joachim Schrod]

xindy example input

[Joachim Schrod]

xindy example style

[Joachim Schrod]

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Workaround: Use

(markup-letter-group :open-head "~n\letterGroup{Numerals}{"
:close-head "}~n"
:group "default")

(markup-letter-group :open-head "~n\letterGroup{"
:close-head "}{}~n")

in the xindy style file; exchange `Numerals' in the first
line with the section header text that you want to have.

You need to add

\newcommand\letterGroup[2]{%
\par
\textbf{#1}%
\par\nopagebreak
}

to your document preamble or your LaTeX style file.
Actually, I don't know if the \nopagebreak is sufficient to
prevent a page break (see ticket #1255990), that needs testing.

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

I'd say "Symbols" is the most common header used for this (see also TLC2)