Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems

[Linda G. Gallagher]

Thanks to everyone who responded. I received lots of great ideas, but none
worked given the 6 x 9 page size and very long headings, except for the TOC
Breaker plug-in http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm. I
installed that, played with it a bit, and got it to fix the problems. Not
totally automatic (you have to select two menu options while in the toc file
and after updating the book), but I think I can remember to that when I do
the final update.

Thanks all for the help and thanks, Chris, wherever you are these days, for
the free plug-in that does this.

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Linda G. Gallagher
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Intelligent technical communication since 1993
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-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Hogarth [mailto:Grant.Hogarth at Reuters.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:41 AM
To: lindag at techcomplus.com; Framers
Subject: RE: Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems


I'm coming in on the tail end of this, but one thing I use is
non-breaking spaces to "clump" words together.
That forces line breaks to occurr only at "normal" spaces.  (I use this
in my indexes as well, where needed)


Grant

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com]
On Behalf Of Linda G. Gallagher
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:28 PM
To: Framers
Subject: Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems

Framers,

Thanks to Fred, John, and Rebecca who came to my aid, but I still am
having problems with this toc. I don't have control over title lengths.
I'm only doing layout on this thing.

Here's what I'm getting:

- Some headings just run close enough to the right margin that only the
page number falls on the next line. When this happens, no matter how
many tabs I add to the reference page, the page number stubbornly stays
at the left side of the page. (For longer headings where some of the
title text falls to the next line, the tabs do their job and the page
number moves to the right.)

- Some headings overlap with where the page number should be. I tried
Rebecca's trick of adding a nonbreakign space to some of the heading
text (in the chapter) but that forced the heading in the chapter to a
fourth line, that isn't really needed.

Here's something I tried, to no avail:

- I created a subtitle format for the subtitle portion of the chapter
title, with the idea that only the chapter title would go into the toc
and the subtitle would only be in the chapter. However no matter how I
tried to format these two styles, the long headings ran to a fourth
line. I tried to make the chapter title a run-in heading, but with both
styles right justified, the run-in thing doesn't put the text of the
next style on the same line, even if there is room.

Is there a way to put the toc into a table, so this would all wrap
nicely into columns?

Any other ideas out there? I'm tearing my hair out and have to deliver
this book in final form Thursday afternoon.

Thanks!!!

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Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help
development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions
lindag at techcomplus.com http://www.techcomplus.com/
303-450-9076
800-500-3144
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group
Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html
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