Problem with placement of page number in LOT and LOF

Question

I have done many books with TOC, LOT, and LOF that all work fine. They all look pretty normal:

Table 123 - Name of table ......................<page number>

or

Figure 123 - Name of Figure .................. <page number>

But now I have a case where the "..........." isn't happening, and the <page number> is just squished up against the name of the table with no space between the name and the page number. This is only happening to the LOT and LOF. The TOC looks fine.

I assume it's something in the Reference Pages that got messed up, but I can't figure out what happened so I can fix it.

Any ideas?

feknight8 · Accepted Answer

FOUND IT! Thanks Bob for pointing me in the right direction. The issue was exactly that tab stop setting. The publisher is in Europe (narrow pages). So, while our files (with American page size) and their files matched, I found that Frame IGNORES a tab stop that pushes the text past the right hand margin. When I reduced the tab stop it magically started working.

The silent ignoring of the tab stop was the confusing part. It was there when you looked at it in the source files, it just never appeared in the finished product, and there was NOTHING to indicate why!

Shlomo Perets · Answer

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