Sorry for the bother, Wolfgang. I think I have the answer now (see my message earlier by about 30 seconds). I had not realized that the textstyle key in \setupregister could take a command for positioning the head as well as its actual style.<div>
<br></div><div>Alan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com">schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div>Am 18.03.2012 um 17:38 schrieb Alan Bowen:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Sorry: My effort escaped without a subject line.</div><div><br></div></span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In placing the heads and subheads of indices, \index defaults to</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
<br></div><div>Head    locator</div><div>Head</div><div>    subhead    locator</div><div><br></div><div>I need to get the subhead without repeating the Head, as in</div>

<div><div><div>Head    locator</div><div>    subhead    locator<br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>How can I do this?</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Example needed!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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