Reply To: TOC-related Formatting Problem

Thank you very much. I had read the first link earlier which had then confirmed InDesign`s reading direction. May layout was a little more tricky but I manipulated the frames successfully

As to the second link`s topic; I have used a suggestion I found on https://forums.adobe.com/thread/688971 . I created a character style with No Break tick-marked, applied it to second parts of longer headings and placed a Discretionary Line Break before. Now it automatically breaks down at the Discretionary Line Break (and not before) when the title gets too long for the TOC.

Then finally, thank you for the Auto-Reflowing technique; I have a bigger problem however with another aspect. I want to create a TOC for the
Images, but of course InDesign’s reading direction works against my left-to-right pic numbering. As an example: With three pics each in three rows it would read 1-4-7, 2-5-8, 3-6-9. I had hoped it could read the consecutive numbering of the caption’s paragraph style alphabetically, but it does not. Now applying manual numbers works well with alphabetic reading in the TOC, but it gives a hard time when pictures need to be added later…

Do I miss the forest for the trees ? I you or anyone else could help me with that, this will be a life-time lesson to set up consecutively numbered captions for picture inventories.

Many thanks!