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Anonymous
August 22, 2011
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FM10 Can't generate the TOC with leading dots

  • August 22, 2011
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Hi everybody,

I have read some useful threads here about this problem but I still can't seem to be able to resolve this leading dots issue for my TOC.

I have already ensured that the reference page for all of my frame files in my Book have the same Reference page TOC entry. When I generate my TOC the leading dots are missing!

I then open the Reference page for the TOC file as well and paste in the same TOC entries from my other frame files, and then update the book to regenerate the TOC.

This also does not solve the problem.

Any help resolving this issue would be really appreciated!

Here are screen shots of my Reference page for my TOC(below). I have ensured that this same section is present for all of my book's frame files too (in their Reference page sections for TOCs).

ChapterTitleTOC

Heading1TOC

Heading2TOC:

And my generated TOC

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Correct answer englishextra

Please do. I'll try to make dots in Reference Pages view and send it back to you with my explanations


Open in View - reference pages and find all occurances of

<$paratext> <$pagenum>

delete space between tags then press tab once then make sure that you selected view - toolbars - paragraph formatting to see the paragraph panel on your right then cahnge authoring mode to design one so I see there you already have tab stops 5,76 then click it and make sure before that the cursor vertical line is there <$paratext>(there should be an angular sign after you pressed tab)|<$pagenum> so now click your 5,76 and play change right to left OR CHANGE WIDTH see screenshot AFTER YOU PRESS CONTINUE you should update all in paragraph panel being in reference pages view

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englishextra
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February 10, 2013

The answer is there http://www.adobe.com/products/adobemag/archive/pdfs/98auqafm.pdf READ THE RIGHT COLUMN of the PDF

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Anonymous
August 25, 2011

Mushhood, looking at the screen captures that you posted in your first post, it looks to me like the reason that your tabs aren't working is because they are set to be too far out to the right for them to "take effect" on the paragraph tags.

As a test, I would suggest changing the tab value from 5.76 to something like 3 in your Heading1/2/3TOC tags, apply the change to the paragraph tags and update all. Then save the chapter and regenerate the book.

The value that's used in the tab is calculated from the start of the left of the text frame, so your case the text frame starts at approx 1.75 from the left margin of the page, so your tab would be 5.76 from that, meaning 1.75 + 5.76 = way out in right field, too far for the tab to have any visible effect.

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Anonymous
August 25, 2011

Sheila, David pointed that out and I did adjust the text frame settings for my page to address it.

The issue i'm having right now is that the leading dots just don't show up in my TOC. I have to manually press <tab> for each line in my TOC to get the leading dots to show up.

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Anonymous
August 22, 2011

I would also like to highlight that in my generated TOC the style tags are not persisting like they should.

Case in point, the left indentation on this generated TOC is wrong:

And same goes for Heading1TOC, where you can see my right indentation and leading dots profile is non existent:

The following Reference Page TOC content has been copied to all other frame file Reference pages:

If i generate stand alone TOCs for each frame file then the TOC generation works as expected:

But when I create a TOC for my book or update my book i don't see the above formatting or the leading dots.

Help!

Mushhood

David_Crowe
David_Crowe
Inspiring
August 22, 2011

A couple of things you should check:

  • Do your paragraph formats Heading1TOC (etc.) have a tab setting in them? It is not sufficient to have the tab setting on the reference page; it must be in the format. (Do an “update all”.)
  • It looks to me as if your page set-up for the TOC has margins that would mean your right-hand tab stop is outside the text box. You need to set it at or inside the right margin.
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Anonymous
August 22, 2011

Hey David!

Thanks for that tip. I have gone into Customize text frame and expanded the margins for my TOC frame file. That has given me more space on either side. Now when I place my cursor between the TOC entry and the page number and press <tab> on my keyboard the leading dots show up.

We are half way there   Now we need to figure out why don't these leading dots just appear on there own? Here is the screen shot:

I generated the above after doing an update to my book. Then I manually press <tab> for the first few lines.

How can I get this TOC to generate the leading dots automatically? I have included the grid lines in the screen shot so you can see that the right tab falls within the page now.

Thanks for that observation. Its helped me get out of half the rut i'm in.

PS: I also went back to the reference page view for the TOC file and ensured that I pressed Update All for each paragraph tag. That also quickly indented each TOC entry in the body page.

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