Multiple Page Index

Question

I'm editing a family history, and the index is quite long. I'm using the tufte class, and have used the full-width fix for a bibliography spanning several pages.

However, it's not working for my index, which is also several pages long. (I'm wondering if it has to do with the columns?)

\begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced, breakable, colback=white, colframe=white, check odd page, toggle left and right, grow to right by=\marginparwidth+\marginparsep, toggle enlargement=evenpage]
\printindex
\end{tcolorbox}

I've compiled several times, and here is what I get:

As you can see the entire page looks cut off entirely. How can I fix this?

(BTW, I'm more or less a n00b at this, so please let me know if I should provide more information.)

Maybe it works if you use the following in the preamble : \usepackage{imakeidx} \makeindex[columns=2] % — PMC1234, Feb 06 '16 at 23:50
I think you should hide one by one every option of tcolorbox (or 2/3 either) and see which is wrong — PMC1234, Feb 07 '16 at 00:00
@PMC1234, none of them is wrong. I just think somehow it doesn't know how to break the box if there are more than one column inside of the box... — lemontwist, Feb 07 '16 at 00:27
... Do you really need tcolorbox then? Does it work without it? Otherwise what is the problem without tcolorbox? — PMC1234, Feb 07 '16 at 00:32
@PMC1234, Without tcolorbox the tufte class can't handle fullwidth over multiple pages. See the link in my post for the explanation of that. — lemontwist, Feb 07 '16 at 01:32
(I am on my phone so I can't use LaYeX for the moment sadly)... Have you also tried the geometry package then ? Use in preamble '\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} and at the page of the index \newgeometry{top=1cm,left=1cm,bottom=1cm,right=1cm} — PMC1234, Feb 07 '16 at 09:38
@Andrew, will do. It'll take a bit for me to work on. Thanks for that link. — lemontwist, Feb 07 '16 at 13:55

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

I discovered the reason that the index was printing improperly. In the preamble, setting the symmetric option under \documentclass was the problem. Removing this option also fixes the problem of multiple page bibliographies.

\documentclass[nobib,twoside,openright,justified]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
%...
\begin{document}
\input{main_content.tex}
%...
\printindex
\end{document}

Here is the first page of the index; all of the subsequent pages look fine as well.

Multiple Page Index

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