Chapter Title breaking/splitting up in the TOC

[Kiathestar]

Hello,

I am using FM11 on Windows 7.0.

When I update my TOC, one of the chapter titles break up and appear on 2 pages (as shown in image).

I have checked for Page breaks, extra spaces and Paragraph tabs etc.

Also, on pressing backspace the text gets shrinked (squeezed up) and not deleted.

When the chapter title is a single line, the page break dissapears. (I have another file where the chapter title is in 2 line and this works well there).

Help much needed!!

ASAP Please...

[Guest]

The formatting of ToC entries is controlled in the Reference Pages.  Have you checked there?

We use the Reference Page entries to add a tab automatically if the line breaks in the ToC.  Our instruction for a Toc entry looks like this:

<$paratext>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\t<$pagenum>

The effect of the \t is to introduce an extra tab if the line breaks, so that the page number is still sent to the margin.

Possibly there is something in your Reference Page entries that is forcing a page feed..

[Arnis Gubins · Accepted solution]

Actually, the Reference page specifies the content for the TOC to use. The formattting is specified by the paragraph tag/style defined in your paraagraph catalog.

@ Kiathestar,

It looks like you have a Keep With Next setting as well as Widow/Orphan set to 1 in your third-level heading paratags. Adjust these so that the Keep With is turned off and the Widow/Orphan setting is at least 2 lines.

Also if you want to set the wrap properly on any of the TOC entries that span more than one line, in the the respective paratag on the Advanced tab, set the Word Spacing Minimum to be much greater than the Word Spacing Maximum value, e.g.

This (counter-intuitive) setting forces the line to wrap well before the right-margin setting takes effect. The location of the wrap is a function of the min/max ratio and does vary a bit depending upon your typeface and font size. Try values in th 150%-300% range for the Minimum (in steps of 25%) until you get a wrap at a visually desirable location.

[Guest]

Quite right; most of the formatting (for example, the font) is controlled using the paragraph tags.  To a small extent, the way the text is formatted to the page in the ToC is also controlled by the Reference page.

For example, if you want the entry to appear with leader dots, you would specify the leader style in the paragraph catalog. But to make the leader dots show up, you have to place a tab in the line on the Reference page. Likewise, to introduce leader dots if the line wraps in the ToC, you can add a \t on the Reference page (at least, that worked for us). It's in this limited sense that I used "formatting."  Sorry for any confusion.

[Arnis Gubins]

To be nit-picky, the tab is a content character and its "formatting" (i.e. visual appearance - location & dot leaders) is controlled by the paratag's definition for tab behaviours.

[Guest]

Fisrt-time Frame users soon learn that if you want your ToC to have leaders, you have to visit the Reference pages.  Whether visible leaders constitute "formatting" could be moot, if you wanted to nitpick.  :-).

[Arnis Gubins]

Aj,

But that's exactly the point. If you want the dot-leaders, then you have to explicitly add that to your Reference page information as "content", i.e. "\t" (the tab character) to be inserted when FM (re-)generates the TOC.

I will now be mute on this point...

[Guest]

On the other hand, if you feel that modifying the paragraph tag has sufficiently formatted your ToC, even though you can't see any leader dots, you dont' need to visit the Reference pages. But your readers may not appreciate your rigorous definition of "formatting."

[Kiathestar]

Arnis Gubins,

Thanks!! I changed the setting Orphan/Widow lines to 2. It works fine.

Regards,