table of contents loses formatting....

[Prithvi Diwanji]

can someone give me some insight into this?
i have read practically everything that i could search for..

the changes made to the reference page of the toc do not "stick" after
updating the book.n

if the book is:
 -- title
 -- toc
 -- chapter1
 -- chapter2

after i update the book, the toc takes the formats from the title page and
loses all the changes i made on the reference pages.


thanks in advance.

prithvi

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Sharon Burton <sharon at anthrobytes.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
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>
> 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
>
>
>
> *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.
>
> --
> Bill Swallow
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