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Re: Complicated heading and cross-reference situation

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From: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:11
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Gilda,

1. Regarding the additional page number appearing in the TOC, you have
to go through the entries on your TOC Reference page carefully. If you
the run-in properly set, then the entry on the Reference page should
also be running together, though it actually is two separate paratags.

Look for something like:
 <$paratext><$pagenum> - <$paratext>.......<$pagenum> 
on a single line and remove the first <$pagenum> building block.

2. Getting both right-justified on the same line is not that easy. Are
the descriptions completely variable in length? If they're all about
the same length, then you could fake it by having the Heading1
right-justified and adding an autonumber tab to the HeadingRunIn (set
left justified) and give it a right tab stop somewhere near where the
descriptions "begin".  But then there will be a "gap" that will
probably have to be manually tweaked. If there are lots of these, then
it will be a maintenance nightmare.

An alternate solution is to do a two-step around this issue by
duplicating some data.

If you set your HeadingRunIn paratag (in your chapters) to have a very
small, white font and be *left* justified, it effectively becomes
invisible. Then repeat the code data in the description Heading1Right
tag formatted so that it looks correct when right justified, i.e. just
like you probably had it originally.

For the cross-refs, you can still pull the contents of the
HeadingRunIn tag to get just the code values.

For the TOC, use just the Heading1Right tag.

Clumsy, but it would work. Using FrameScript, this could be automated
so that maintenance would be easier - if you're so inclined to get
down & dirty programming things.

I hope this helps,

Arnis
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