One problem down, one new one comes up

[Fred Ridder]

Ken Poshedly wrote:

 

> The problem was that no matter what I did, a preceding hyphen (dash, whatever) appeared with the numerical page number digit.
> 
> Apparently, the problem was caused by a glitch. For instance, in the TOC I was working on, the variable definition for current page number is shown as <$curpagenum> with no hyphen included, yet a hyphen always preceded the numerical digit.
> 
> I followed suggestions from you guys to import the format of another TOC instead of using the format of my body chapters. It worked. 
> 
> Note that now the variable definition for current page number is still shown as <$curpagenum> with no hyphen, and NO hyphen precedes the numerical digit.
> 
> Go figure.


This is perfectly logical. The variable is only the number, exactly as it should be. The hyphen was included as a literal character in the layout of the headers and footers for your chapter files, exactly as it should be. If you use the *same* template with the same page layouts for the TOC, you get a literal hyphen when you don't want it because it's part of the standard page layout. To get rid of it, you need to have a different page layout design for the TOC pages, either by adding custom master pages for the TOC to the standard template or by using a custom template for the TOC. 

-Fred Ridder