table of contents loses formatting....

[Sharon Burton]

Do you have multiple TOC entries/pages in the Reference pages? I've seen
that when importing formats, etc from other files. Walk the reference pages
in the TOC files to see if you have multiple references pages with TOC
formats on them. 

 

After you format the TOC entries, don't import anything from other files, as
you may be overwriting changes you made to the TOC file.

 

sharon

 

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From: Prithvi Diwanji [mailto:prithvi.diwanji at druva.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:53 AM
To: sharon at anthrobytes.com
Cc: Bill Swallow; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: table of contents loses formatting....

 

thanks.

yes, i can confirm that i did not do any hand formatting.

i created the appropriate tab stops using the para designer etc. i followed
the correct steps to format the TOC entries on the reference page.

what i am talking about when i say lose formatting is a total loss of all
changes made on the reference pages, incl changes to ChapterTitleTOC,
Heading1TOC styles ( done through the para designer).
the next time i generate the toc i get the images and layouts and everything
else on the title page file, which precedes the TOC file in the book. i can
see this because i can see a logo image there which was not present earlier.

the toc entries become plain text. 

in short, the first time the changes made to the reference pages stick, the
next time (next update of book) they disappear and take on the formats of
the preceding file.




On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Sharon Burton <sharon at anthrobytes.com>
wrote:

Glad I could help. 

 

On the Reference page, make sure that you are specifying things like tabs
using the characters and not hand formatting. See the Frame Documentation
for details about formatting TOC entries on Reference pages. 

 

 

sharon

 

Sharon Burton

Product Evangelist, Author-it

951-369-8590

IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com

Twitter: sharonburton
Blog: www.author-it.com/blog

 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton>
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton

 

From: Prithvi Diwanji [mailto:prithvi.diwanji at druva.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:55 AM
To: sharon at anthrobytes.com; Bill Swallow
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: table of contents loses formatting....

 

thank you, all.

sharon, your solution worked...

thanks to your help i have been able to fix most problems.

one niggling problem remains:

every time i generate the TOC, format the TOC styles etc in the reference
page, it works. now if i close the TOC file and update the book, and then
re-open the TOC file, i lose all changes i made to the reference page and
the TOC looks unformatted again. (it takes the formats and layouts from the
title page preceding it, i guess....)

can anyone help me fix this?

thanks a lot... 

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood at gmail.com>
wrote:

That's a very good point. I would never have thought to check if a
chapter name resided in a separate flow.


On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Sharon Burton <sharon at anthrobytes.com>
wrote:
> If you have the Chapter name in a different text flow, it will appear
later
> in the TOC. Connect the text flows to fix it. See the Frame documentation
> for more details.

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Bill Swallow

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