Small Case to Sentence Case in TOC

Question

Hello!

I am creating a brand guide where the chaper headings are in small caps (e.g. typography) and in the TOC, I need it to be in Sentence Case (e.g. Typography). I am wondering how to achieve this. Thank you!

James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted Answer

It's picking up the contents of the Chapter Heading paragraph style.

Okay... so do you have autonumbering on the Chapter Head style? Or are you applying numbering on the TOC style?

If the whole TOC string begins with chapter head numbering, the GREP style will have to bypass that to reach the first actual letter. That can get involved, but this should select one digit plus a following white space and ignore it, then apply the uppercase style to the first letter: (?<=\d\t)[\l]

I think your combination of styles, styling and text layout might be a little convoluted; this all might work better if it's simplified.

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

It is more or less a glitch that ID pulls in all character styles and spot changes from TOC source paragraphs. I have books where a word is properly bolded or italicized, for example, in a chapter heading, and getting this gloss out of the TOC entry proves nearly impossible.

It's possible GREP styles could override character settings, but my recollection is that ID is really stubborn about bringing those styles with the paragraph. The only good solution may be to use a phantom chapter title (1pt white or no-color type) above or below the actual chapter title, and link the TOC to that.

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