Tabs on second line in TOC, LOF (all generated lists)

[Karen Farrell]

When I generate a TOC or LOF or any generated list, the tabs and leaders come out fine--on the first line, but if there is a particularly long heading, as there are a few of for one of my medical clients on their subheads, the number does not flow to the right. The workaround is to put a manual soft return somewhere in the first line, then tab twice manually on the second line. Can this process be carried out on the reference page or in the paragraph format somehow?

Thanks in advance.

[Van Kurtz · Accepted solution]

This may or not work, but it works for me, most of the time.

In the TOC paragraph style, all the styles with line breaking problems, change the word spacing criteria to

Minimum = 275%

Maximum = 325%

Optimum = 100%

These values look odd in that the optimum is outside the min-max range. I think what FrameMaker does is use the min-max numbers to decide where the line break should be, then set the spacing to 100%, the optimum. This will cause a line break a half inch or so from the right edge. If you want the break farther in, add 100 to both the minimum and the maximum values, but leave optimum at 100%.

I am not sure, but this may also require that hyphenation be turned off, as well as allow automatic letter spacing. You will have to experiment if you require these turned on.

Good luck,

Van

[Karen Farrell]

Thanks Van,

You are a genius!!!

Karen

P.S. I did need the hyphenation off and the Allow Automatic Letter Spacing on.

[Karen Farrell]

One more thing I had to do was add another tab to the reference page. See figure. Not to the paragraph tag (I only have two there), just input a tab. And silly me, I forgot to make the left indent equal to the first tab (thus the need to input the first manual tab earlier).