[Framers] Create a separate ToC for each text flow?

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Framers

I've got this nice challenge:

I've got a big FrameMaker book in which each chapter has 2 separate text
flows: one for Dutch text and one for French. The Dutch and French text
appears side by side on each page.

I want to create a table of contents which has the same: a Dutch text flow
on the left and a French text flow on the right.

I don't see a "standard" way of doing this in Fm. When I generate a ToC, I
get the Dutch and French text mixed together in a single flow:

Dutch heading.... page 1
French heading.... page 1
Dutch heading.... page 2
French heading.... page 2

etc.

My current workaround is kinda complicated:

   1. Create 3 versions of the book, one bilingual (master) version, a
   French version and a Dutch version.
   2. Remove all French text from the Dutch book and vice versa.
   3. Generate a ToC in the French version.
   4. Generate a ToC in the Dutch version.
   5. In the bilingual version, import the Dutch ToC in the Dutch text flow
   of the "fake ToC" and import the French ToC in the French text flow.

It works, but it's too complicated and will take too much time when updates
occur.

Any better ideas? Can an ExtendScript do this?

Thanks

Yves Barbion
www.flowtime.be