susan.mcdonald at teradyne.com wrote: > We are generating a book with over 50 chapters, each of which has a number > of figures. So far, we have decided that the product name and the screen > name should be included in the figure caption, so several of them are > quite long. I'm using Frame 7.0 on Windows XP. > > I have been able to format the LOF so that if the caption text is too long > for the line, it wraps and a tab places the page number at the far right > margin of the 2nd line. The only time this doesn't happen is when the > caption text is just long enough to fit on one line, not long enough to > wrap, but long enough to force the page number to the next line. When that > happens, the caption text is on one line and the page number on another, > but the number is at the left margin, not the right. > > I have tried adjusting tabs, inserting nonbreaking spaces at the end of > the problem captions,and playing with letter spacing, with no luck. I > have two tabs for this paragraph, one between the figure number and the > caption text, and one between the caption text and the page number. > > I need to have the number on the right margin, even if the text is just > long enough to fit on the line and only the number gets pushed to the next > line. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how I can make this happen? So far, only > manual intervention to force a tab on the second line has worked, but we > have a lot of figures so this is not the preferred solution. > > Thanks in advance! > > > Susan McDonald > Teradyne, Inc. >
Susan, Try putting an extra tab character (or two) before the <$pagenum> block on the reference page. (I haven't tested this, but I seem to recall someone else proposing this solution.) HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 "The smartest export Canada ever sent to the United States." Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5