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Re: TOC dots like ". . ." instead of "....."?

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From: Save The Vinyls
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:
>
>
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> > "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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Subject: Re: TOC dots like ". . ." instead of "....."?
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