General ⇒ Multiple Lists or Formatting Indexes

[kaushik]

I have report that I'm typing out that uses a couple of court cases, a few legal regulations and a some laws. I want to have some nice lists at the beginning of my document that go:
-------------------------
List of Cases

<case name1> <pg>
<case name2> <pg>
etc...

List of Regulations

<regulation1> <pg>
<regulation2> <pg>
etc...

List of Laws

<law1> <pg>
<law2> <pg>
etc...
-------------------------

I first tried using the index function and did

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\index{Cases!Case1}

and

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\index{Regulations!Regulation1}

and put

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\printindex

right after

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\begin{document}

. The problem with that is because of the way indexes are formatted (by default as 2 columns per page), it doesn't look nice.

Is there any other way I can get LaTeX to list them at the beginning of the document? Alternatively, is there a way I can change the formatting of indexes so that they don't appear as 2 columns a page?

[Juanjo]

In this thread and in this other thread, you can find some redefinitions of theindex environment with the help of the multicol package. In this precise moment, I can't check it, but I suppose that they will also work for only one column. It would suffice to write \begin{multicols}{1} at the right place. Please note that each redefinition is valid for a specific document class. I think that the one given at the end of the second above cited thread will work with the report class.