TOC made with XRef needs line break in middle of line(s)

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

Thanks to all that replied.

Maybe it will be easier in the long run to make more standard section
TOCs based on "temporary" Section Books that just take all settings As
Is.

But Sarah got me going trying out some tweaking.
I made a different Xref format for long lines, added a left tab
towards the end of the line and using hard spaces and em spaces in
between tabs, I could make it work.

But IMVHO (in my very humble opinion), Adobe really should go about
adding optional tab lengths to the tabs, so that a line will
automatically break within a tab.

Thanks again,

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson


On 6/14/06, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't think of an easy way to make your lines break, but I would
> propose an alternate solution that would mostly automate the
> procedure.
>
> Follow the KISS principle and just add several more standard TOCs, one
> for each section. Turn on the hyperlinks, etc.
>
> Each time you update the book and the TOCs, you'd need to open each
> section TOC and delete the not-in-that-section items, but otherwise
> your line break tools and standards would continue to work.
>
> Art
>
> On 6/14/06, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am fighting to adapt an alien structured book to our needs. It
> > consists of a couple of hundred files but there is only one bookfile
> > and each "Section" or volume has its own Table of Contents (in
> > addition to the book TOC), which they call Index. Some of the TOCs
> > were totally without hyperlinks (just typed text within special entry
> > elements), but some use hyperlink elements.
> >
> > I want to get some easier way of linking the TOC items, so, as I do
> > not know of any easy way of making a section TOC (because this would
> > involve dozens of files for each and there are other practical reasons
> > not to split the book up into more book files), I decided to try to
> > use cross references.
> >
> > I added the necessary elements to the EDD and everything works OK,
> > except when I come across long lines, of course the lines won't brake
> > anywhere sensible. It seems to me, that it is in places like this that
> > we need to be able to set a tabulator length, so that a line will
> > brake within a tabulator.
> >
> > Is there any way of working this, a FrameScript or something?
> > Can ToCBreaker be tricked into being applicable here?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson,
> > Supervisor Publishing,
> > Flight Support,
> > Air Atlanta Icelandic
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