Problems Generating TOC on Newly Translated File

[Art Campbell]

I'm on the same page as Richard on this, but with a couple of twists....

The most important one would be HOW the translation vendor was able to
generate any kind of TOC. Part of the deal is usually that you receive
working files back from the vendor, and it certainly sounds as if you
didn't. So that would be the big one. And one that may save you some time
and money.

To fix it...
First, I'd make a copy of the unmodified translated directory.
Assuming they didn't rename any of your tags... I'd try importing formats
and Ref pages from a working TOC into the faulty TOC and then update to see
what you get. This is a version of what Richard suggested, but I'd try
updating first to see if you can avoid the micro-level troubleshooting.

If that fails, I'd try setting up the translated content files in a new
book, and generate a new TOC.

Art

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard.combs at polycom.com>wrote:

> Alison Craig wrote:
>
> > I received my translated book back from the LSP complete with TOC,
> which
> > seemed to be fine.
> >
> > After tweaking the formatting in 10 chapters and 7 Appendices, then
> copying
> > in the correct Variables file I tried to Update the TOC (and all
> Numbering,
> > Cross-references, Text Insets and OLE links).
>
> Umm... should you really be doing this? I'm no expert on handling
> translations (that's someone else's job), so maybe I'm off base. But
> when we get translated books back, we generally make no changes to the
> translated files (oh, occasionally there's a doc number to correct or
> something like that), we just PDF them as is. (For Hebrew, the vendor
> even supplies the PDF, since they have to port the RTL languages to
> InDesign.)
>
> > Instead of 6 pages of proper TOC it generated less than one page of
> what
> > seems to be page numbers only. I have consulted the Manual and
> Scriptorium
> > FrameMaker book to no avail.
>
> In the bad TOC file, select View > Reference Pages. Find the TOC
> specification -- it's in a text frame with the flow name "TOC," and it
> contains paragraphs that have tag names like the headings included in
> the TOC, but with a "TOC" suffix (e.g., "Heading1TOC"). It sounds like
> each of those pgfs contains only the page number variable (<$pagenum>).
>
> Now find the TOC spec in the ref pages of a good TOC and compare it to
> the bad TOC spec. It may look more like this:
>
>        <$chapnum>      <$paratext>                      <$pagenum>
> (there are tabs in there, including a leader tab in front of <$pagenum>)
>
> If that's the situation, try this: Copy all the text in the good TOC
> specification and replace all the text in the bad TOC specification with
> it. Then update/regenerate.
>
> If I'm completely off base regarding the situation or that doesn't solve
> the problem, try spending some quality time in the "Tables of Contents"
> section of the help/manual. Even if you can't figure it out, a better
> understanding of TOCs in FM might help you describe the situation in
> more detail.
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> 303-223-5111
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