(a) If the default indexing process fails, the unit-cell search is automatically repeated by changing some default choices, e.g., increasing the tolerance value on the observed d values. If still no solution is obtained, the maximum (hkl) Miller indices assigned to the orthorhombic or monoclinic base lines are increased and the tolerance limits of the default values are halved in order to avoid the generation of wrong large unit cells.

(b) At the end of the first run, whatever the obtained results, a possible 2θ zero-position shift is taken into account: the indexing process starts again by applying positive and negative 2θ zero-position shifts to the original peak search result.

(c) An exhaustive triclinic search is performed. The dominant-zone tests that are usually carried out for the monoclinic system have been extended to include the triclinic case.

(d) A new figure of merit, WRIP20, more powerful than the classical M₂₀, is used. It is calculated when more than one possible cell is found and takes into account the M₂₀ value, the full experimental pattern, the degree of reflection overlap, the systematically absent reflections and the number of unindexed lines (see Section 3.4.2.1).