When we create an alphabetical Index or a TOC there are two ways to select a text range: "Chapter" and "Document". This has severe limitations for the creation of advanced document setups. E.g.: -a TOC can refer to a chapter or to an entire document, so if it is in the front matter (i.e. the latin-numbered pages that are outside any specific chapter) it can only index the entire text. To index a specific chapter it should be placed after heading 1. This is a shortcoming for publication purposes as the TOC would then have to be manually moved to the Front matter in the pdf. -an alphabetical index also indexes the front matter pages (latin numeral pages) which, according to various style guides, should not be indexed. One should delete them, create the indexes and re-paste them to get it right. It would be good to have a fine-grained selection for ranges of the text to be indexed (e.g. per section or per chapter).
Sounds reasonable -> NEW.