Index Formatting Question

Rick Quatro frameexpert at truevine.net
Tue Apr 25 13:47:53 PDT 2006


Hi Tammy,

Use a non-breaking hyphen as the separator in your page numbers. Then the 
whole page number will break together.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


>I have a three-column index with three entry levels. (I cannot use only
> two levels - I have gone over this with an indexing guru - sigh!) Anyway,
> The first level is not indented, the second level is only slightly
> indented beneath the first and the third level is slightly indented
> beneath the second - pretty standard stuff. Based on the indentations,
> however, sometimes, a page number for the second level and third levels
> breaks across a line:
>
> Level 1   1-1
>         Level 2    2-
>         1
>                Level 3   3-
>                1
>
>
> Ok, my editor does not like this and I really don't either, but short of
> manually adjusting this everytime I generate an Index, is there a
> plug-in/what else can I do to make this happen automatically (something
> like TOCBreaker is ringing a bell, but. . .) and unfortunately, the option
> to change the template is not one - it's an in-house/approved template and
> I just can't go willy-nilly changing it.
>
> TIA,
>
> TVB
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Senior Technical Writer
> Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
> 303-328-4420
> tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com
> _______________________________________________




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