TOC of document names in a book

[Stuart Rogers]

On 2013-Apr-24 2:24 AM, Rod Fee wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> So I have a whole lot of documents in one book.
>
> I want to insert a table of contents (Add/Table of Contents)
>
> I want that TOC to include the file names of the various documents in their
> order and with their page numbers that they start on.
>
> The options for what to include in the TOC do not seem to include the file
> names of the documents themselves.
>
> Any way of doing this and including their page number automatically or is it
> something I will have to manually produce and update?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rod Fee
>


As you've noticed, TOC generation allows you to select paragraphs with 
specific tags for inclusion.  If you put your file name (best to use the 
system variable) in a uniquely tagged paragraph, you can select that pgf 
tag for inclusion in the TOC.

I'm not sure why you would want to do this; normally the chapter title 
is the most meaningful entry in a TOC. If you make your chapter titles 
the same as your file names (or vice versa), the problem goes away.  If 
you must use a file name that differs from the chapter title but don't 
want it to appear on the page, you'll have to fudge it by putting the 
file name variable into a uniquely tagged pgf on the first page of the 
file, with characteristics that make it invisible (e.g., 2 pt font, 
colour white, or some other colour that you then designate as Don't 
Print in the color definition).  I'm not sure what the implications are 
for PDF generation in the latter case; in the former (colour white), the 
text will become visible if it is selected in the PDF (reverse highlighted).

HTH,

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