Table of contents based on authors list

[Wyppet]

I have a publication that goes on for several pages like this:

Book1 Title

Author1, Author2, Author3

Book2 Title

Author4, Autorh5, Author6

I've created a paragraph style for the book entries, and a style for the authors. I now need to create a ToC that simply says, for each author, the page he is in (no mention of anything else, just the page):

Author1   Page 1

Author2   Page 1

...

When I create a ToC what I get is:

Author1, Autorh2, Author3         Page 1

Author4, Autorh5, Author6         Page 2

How do I get Id to recognize the different authors and make single entries for each of them? Can I instruct Id to use the comma&space as the point where an author name ends and a new one begins?

Thanks in advance

[Scott Falkner · Accepted solution]

The table of contents feature captures all the text in the paragraph tagged with the style used and doesn't alter it. What you want is more like an index.

Below I selected each author's name then added an index entry in the Index panel (Window > Type & Tables > Index). I then generated an index. I changed the options to use a tab after each index entry and removed the Index Section Headings (A, B, C, etc.).