Spam-Fortinet TOC not what should be

[Stephen O'Brien]

May be a typo...but the system variable chaptnum is in fact chapnum...



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>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>
>
>What I get is this:
>
>BLAH-BLAH LEVEL 1 ................................3
>    BLAH-BLAH LEVEL 2 .............................4
>
>I've checked and doublechecked my settings and 
>even consulted chapter 12 of my printout of the 
>official FM 8.0 manual (what a doosy). Nothing 
>seems amiss, but still it's just not working.
>
>-- Kenpo in Atlanta
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Stephen O'Brien
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