Reply To: Compiling topical list (tables)

Yelena — Unlike Microsoft Word, InDesign doesn’t do tables of authority and other tables. Those tables are in fact indexes. The problem in InDesign is further that you can do just one index per document/book. The standard way to get around that is by coding your topics in such a way that you in effect create several index in the general index. It works as follows: mark up the subject index as usual. Table of statute items you can prefix with e.g. ##, tables of cases items, with e.g. @@. Then when you generate the index you get something like

##item (table of statutes)
##item
@@item (table of cases)
@@item
item (subject index)
item

Then all you need to do is to move the ##items and @@items to where they should appear, and remove ## and @@.

Peter