On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:02:02 -0700
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:

> In Writer 3.01, If you go into Paragraph > Tabs you can set a leading
> character. The defaults are kind of ugly - dotted line, dashed line,
> sold underscore. You can set your own character, but I'm having trouble
> getting it to do what I want.
> 
> This is for a table of contents. What it currently displays is:
> 
> Chapter 1.....................1
> 
> I want it to look like:
> 
> Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . .  1
> 
> I.e., I want a space between the dots and at least one space after the
> entry and at least one space before the page number. (OK, I'm fussy
> about the appearance of my documents.)
> 
> I thought I could at least get the space between the dots, but in the
> Tabs > Character box you can enter only one character. That is, I tried
> to enter a dot and a space, but it wouldn't let me.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions, workarounds or special tricks?

I solved the problem with the use of Character Map. I spent 10 minutes
scrolling through the thousands of characters in the font I am using
(Junicode). I found that character FF0E (thats eff-eff-zero-ee) works
perfectly. This character is a dot, but evidently was designed with a
wide left bearing. When I set Tabs > Character to FF0E it appears
perfect. 

This may not work if your font does not have the character.

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