TOC not what should be

[Peter Gold]

Try spelling it <$chapnum> not <$chap*t*num>.

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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Peter Gold
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM,  <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> (FM8.0 on an HP Pavilion pc)
>
> I'm having no success in generating a book TOC where each line entry includes the topic (either level 1 or level 2), followed by a tabbed dot leader, followed by the "chapnum", then a dash and then the "pagenum", like this:
>
> BLAH-BLAH LEVEL 1 ................................1-3
>   BLAH-BLAH LEVEL 2 .............................1-4
>
> The chapnum and pagenum were set up in each of the chapter master page footers via Format > Headers&Footers, Insert page# and Insert other > Chapter Number with a dash in between (as shown above)
>
> With the book file and all chapters opened, Format > Document > Numbering and "1" was selected for the first chapter and Continue Numbering from Previous File in Book was used for the subsequent chapters.
>
> Then at the book level, it's Format > Add Table of Contents, then moving only the Section Title, Topic Level 1 and Topic Level 2 from the "Don't Include" box  to the "Include Paragraphs Tagged" box (the TOC is set to be placed right after the book's title page and before the first chapter).
>
> In the Update Book dialog box, all checkboxes are checked and I click "Update" to generate the file.
>
> The resultant file is in Times Roman with a space and a single page number for everything.
>
> BLAH-BLAH 1 (displays as the paragraph for Topic Level 1TOC)
> BLAH-BLAH 2 (displays as the paragraph for Topic Level 2TOC)
>
> After using paragraph designer to "Update all" with a Arial font, then a 6.9 in. right-aligned tab with dot leader, I check the reference page, and set the Topic Level 1TOC entry to
> <$paratext>.....................................<$chaptnum>-<$pagenum>
>
> and the Topic Level 2TOC entry to
>       <$paratext>..............................<$chaptnum>-<$pagenum>