Thanks to everyone who responded. I received lots of great ideas, but none worked given the 6 x 9 page size and very long headings, except for the TOC Breaker plug-in http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm. I installed that, played with it a bit, and got it to fix the problems. Not totally automatic (you have to select two menu options while in the toc file and after updating the book), but I think I can remember to that when I do the final update.
Thanks all for the help and thanks, Chris, wherever you are these days, for the free plug-in that does this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions lindag at techcomplus.com http://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 800-500-3144 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Grant Hogarth [mailto:grant.hoga...@reuters.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:41 AM To: lindag at techcomplus.com; Framers Subject: RE: Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems I'm coming in on the tail end of this, but one thing I use is non-breaking spaces to "clump" words together. That forces line breaks to occurr only at "normal" spaces. (I use this in my indexes as well, where needed) Grant -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Linda G. Gallagher Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:28 PM To: Framers Subject: Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems Framers, Thanks to Fred, John, and Rebecca who came to my aid, but I still am having problems with this toc. I don't have control over title lengths. I'm only doing layout on this thing. Here's what I'm getting: - Some headings just run close enough to the right margin that only the page number falls on the next line. When this happens, no matter how many tabs I add to the reference page, the page number stubbornly stays at the left side of the page. (For longer headings where some of the title text falls to the next line, the tabs do their job and the page number moves to the right.) - Some headings overlap with where the page number should be. I tried Rebecca's trick of adding a nonbreakign space to some of the heading text (in the chapter) but that forced the heading in the chapter to a fourth line, that isn't really needed. Here's something I tried, to no avail: - I created a subtitle format for the subtitle portion of the chapter title, with the idea that only the chapter title would go into the toc and the subtitle would only be in the chapter. However no matter how I tried to format these two styles, the long headings ran to a fourth line. I tried to make the chapter title a run-in heading, but with both styles right justified, the run-in thing doesn't put the text of the next style on the same line, even if there is room. Is there a way to put the toc into a table, so this would all wrap nicely into columns? Any other ideas out there? I'm tearing my hair out and have to deliver this book in final form Thursday afternoon. Thanks!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions lindag at techcomplus.com http://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 800-500-3144 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~