The Problem with Long Titles in Generated Lists

[Stuart Rogers]

On 2013-Jun-03 1:27 PM, Jerilynne Knight wrote:
> Another way I've done this is to insert at least 3 tab characters (not 
> tab stops) before the page number. Maybe that will give you a bit of 
> automation for those long entries.
>
>
... Jerilynne means, "on the reference page" for the TOC or other 
generated file.


> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jay Mahler <jay at mahler.com 
> <mailto:jay at mahler.com>> wrote:
>
>     I’m sure you’ve all had the problem with TOCs, LOTs, LOFs, and
>     even indexes. When the title reaches the end of the line (or too
>     many index entries), the tab character that should position the
>     page number at right aligned tab doesn’t work, and the page number
>     appears left justified on the second line with or without
>     continued text. I’ve always gone through and manually fixed the
>     issue by inserting soft returns after the lists are generated, but
>     I have a client with a huge document and LOTs and LOFs that are 20
>     pages each. Has anyone figured out an automated way to fix this
>     problem? My experiments haven’t turned up a solution.
>
>

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