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May 20, 2011
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FM10 TOC Tab Leaders not showing in generated output

  • May 20, 2011
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Hi,

I'm evaluating FM10, in the hopes of persuading  the PTB to purchase it. Things are going along swimmingly, but I can't  get the dot tab leaders in my TOC to work properly.

I have my Reference TOC page set up as shown below:

and the Paragraph designer (for example, for the second item in the image) set up like this:

But this is what gets generated:

What am I doing wrong?

Any assistance would be helpful. I'm tearing my hair out over this, and I don't have much to tear!

Thanks,

Andy

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    Van,

    Um... Yup. In fact, in the captures below, you can see I've set the tab at 6.0", "just in case."

    So... I don't think that's it.

    This is REALLY frustrating... and I'm waiting for a callback from Adobe support at this point.

    Thanks,

    Andy


    Hi Andy

    A few questions for you that might lead you to a solution:
    1. Have you added the tab stops in the TOC formatting in References page after creation of the TOC document or it was created by you in the source document itself? If you have edited the tab stops after creation of the TOC document then I would suggest saving the TOC document in same folder as source document and then recreating the TOC from the source document.
    2. Have you tried same steps in another version of Frame or in FM10 on another machine ? Does it work correctly on any of these?

    I tried to create TOC similar to the example given by you. These are the steps done by me :
    1. Open a source document having paragraphs with paragraph tags Heading1, Heading2 and Heading 3
    2. Switch to Reference pages and go to the Table of Contents Specification - edit the specification as given by you.
    3. Switch back to Body pages and generate the TOC for paragraph styles Heading1, Heading2 and Heading3
    4. TOC document gets generated and opens in Frame with desired content and tab leaders.

    Were your steps any different from the above? If yes, what were they?

    - Kshipra

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    May 20, 2011

    I think you're missing the tab (\t) between your <$paratext> and <$pagenum> tags. The tab stop needs to be customized to use the dots at the position. Check the wiki at scriptorium.com on "dot leaders" - there's a section on doing exactly what you want to do in their FM8 guide - nothing has changed in FM10 with this.

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    peter minneapolis
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    May 20, 2011

    Jeff_Coatsworth wrote:

    I think you're missing the tab (\t) between your <$paratext> and <$pagenum> tags. The tab stop needs to be customized to use the dots at the position. Check the wiki at scriptorium.com on "dot leaders" - there's a section on doing exactly what you want to do in their FM8 guide - nothing has changed in FM10 with this.

    I think this is one of those D'oh issues. The tab character is in the reference page TOC specification prototype paragraph formats. "\t" is one way to specify a tab character, but typing the tab character in the text and turning on Text Symbols, displays the tab like this: ">."

    If the screen shots are to the same scale, then the trained observer (aka one who's stumbled over this arcane issue many times) can see that the reference page text frame is wider than the body page text frame, and the tab stop setting - right aligned 6.5" from the left margin - is too far to the right to fit in the narrower body-page text frame, so the tab is not expanded to the tab stop position. The effect is the same as if no \t or > tab was inserted in the prototype.

    If you think this is a bug, consider that it's a fixed bug, from the earlier releases, up to around FM7 or 8, when a tab stop set to the right of the text frame's border was expanded up to the border.

    HTH

    Regards,

    Peter Gold

    KnowHow ProServices

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    Anonymous
    May 20, 2011

    Um... The text frames on both the Reference and the Body pages are 6.5" wide... I can manually insert a tab in the generated TOC, and it works fine, but I'm not sure that the problem is with the tabs being too far to the right (I tried changing the tab stops in the Paragraph Designer to 5.5"R and it still didn't work).

    Or am I not understanding something? I've tried making the text frame wider, the tab stop narrower, entering the tabs manually then re-generating. Nothing seems to help.

    Just to be absolutely clear (I hope!), here is a capture of the TOC Reference page showing the ruler:

    and here's the body page:

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