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Article #203Re: TOC dots like ". . ." instead of "....."?
From: Save The Vinyls
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:01
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:01
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On May 5, 9:55 pm, Save The Vinyls <reddvinyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 4, 7:22 pm, "pdan" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > > "Save The Vinyls" <reddvinyl...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:cef58658-8729-466b-a19a-a76c654bdfce@n8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com... > > > > Hi, > > > > is it possible to make my TOC dots go like ". . ." instead of "....."? > > > > Like page 7 of this one:http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf > > > > Much obliged! > > > Set the tracking somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 - 1200 > > > See this referencehttp://indesignsecrets.com/why-cant-i-get-dot-leaders-to-line-up.php > > > Never having tried it, I just created a "Wide Leader" Character Style > > (tracking +800) nested in a TOC Paragraph style - > > Great, great stuff. > > A couple more questions though: > > 1. I got three TOC styles now, TOC Heading 1, TOC Heading 2 and TOC > Heading 3. As in that lshort.pdf, my TOC Heading 1 has to be bold. > However, when my dots get bold too they don't align with the rest. Is > there any way to solve this other than manually editing every TOC > Heading 1? > > 2. To get, say, "1 Introduction" instead of "1 Introduction", is the > only way to do this to space things manually? > > 3. Right now my endings look like: > > . . . . . 9 > . . . . . 10 > . . . . . 11 > > Instead, how do I make them like this? > > . . . . . 9 > . . . . . 10 > . . . . . 11 > > (doesn't look too good with san-serif here in my browser but you know > what I mean) > > Thanks again y'all! Actually I'm fine doing all this stuff manually. I can't picture a way this could be automated into a paragraph / TOC style anyway. I might be wrong though?
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