How to do this in a Table of Contents?

Question

Just experimenting a bit & wondering how to accomplish this, if possible, while minimizing manually editing each time. I haven’t done a lot of tricky TOCs, but haven’t been able to figure this one out yet.

Example below…

Even better would be if the story title could have its own formatting automatically as well.

The issue is that what’s shown here as “Author Name” is a style that has a hard return after it in the body. I assume nested styles may be the answer, so I’ll have to read up on that a bit.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Peter Kahrel · Answer

>wondering how to accomplish thisYou don’t actually say what ‘this’ is, but I’m guessing it’s about that forced line break you inserted to prevent the text overlapping the page number. You do that by setting the paragraph’s right indent and last line indent. The latter you set as a negative value.Author name: There’s a classic trick for this. On the page where the author appears, place a text frame (on a non-printing layer) and copy the author name and the story title in it on one line, including the tab. Apply a dummy paragraph to it that’s picked up by the TOC style.In the style applied in the TOC, create nested (or GREP) styles to format author, story title, and page number.

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