Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Art Campbell
Are RevNum and DateRev paragraph tags or variables? Where's the 10-5 coming from? Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson

Re: Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread ecidade
Art Thank you. Yup..RevNum and DateRev are both paragraph tags. the 10-5 comes from the chapter and page number.apparently, when I keyed those into my original e.mail they didn't appear (probably because of the dollar sign) but they track like this: - (imagine the dollar

RE: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Fred Ridder
I've done this kind of thing many times to pick up the name and description of function calls from separate paragraphs in API documentation. It's quite simple, although a bit obscure. If your two paragraphs have tags Para1 and Para2 in the text, your TOC will contain paragraphs Para1TOC

Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Art Campbell
Since those are para tags and not variables, Fred's solution is also what I'd do. There seems to be another problem though, in the order in which the paratags are read in the TOC, because your example shows them out of order. To fix that, I believe all you need to do is re-order the strings in

Re: Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread ecidade
I'll keep developing the content and when that's done go back and tweak with the TOC problem thanks to all.and keep the suggestions coming...most appreciated. On Fri 29/05/09 11:46 , Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com sent: Since those are para tags and not variables, Fred's solution

Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Stuart Rogers
Art Campbell wrote: Since those are para tags and not variables, Fred's solution is also what I'd do. There seems to be another problem though, in the order in which the paratags are read in the TOC, because your example shows them out of order. To fix that, I believe all you need to do is

Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread ecidade
It worked reorganizing the tags did the trick now reads 5-1029 MAY 09...Revision 001 thank you all! eduardo - original message - Subject:Re: Difficulty Creating a TOC From: Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com Date: 05-29-2009 16:03 Yeah, I agree, that would

RE: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Fred Ridder
Stuart Rogers wrote: Re-ordering the strings on the ref. page *may* work, but I have a feeling the DateRev pgf is occurring before the RevNum pgf in the chapter file. I believe that would cause the result we see now, since the TOC gets built in the order the pgfs are encountered in the