Table of content: excerpt text

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Hello everyone,I'm handling a document where I need to manage a Table of figures. Since it's quite a technical document, the captions are sometimes a bit long. I'd like to include in the ToF only a part of them. For example: "Figure 1: General envelope. The blablablalbla": I'd like to have only "Figure 1: General envelope" in the ToF.  My first idea was to use two paragraph styles (let's say Figures and FiguresNOTOF) and use the former in the ToF, but I can't help having a line break in the caption, which should be avoided.  I browsed some discussions here but I couldn't find the best way to achieve this.What's the best strategy here? Thank you!

Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

Your idea of using two paragraph styles is correct. But instead of adding the abbreviated caption to the 'real' caption, add it in a sperate text frame and anchor it in the caption. You can move the anchored frame largely away from the page, only a fraction of the frame needs to be on the page. Then in the ToF use the paragraph style applied to the abbreviated caption.

Peter Kahrel · Answer

I assumed that abbreviating a caption wouldn't always be as simple as chopping it off somewhere.

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