A client decided that the guidebook for part three of their training materials would be published only in PDF form, as a download, rather than the elaborate combination of book, CD/DVD holder and slip-case we designed for the first two parts. Not a huge deal, you'd think, except that each of the three guidebooks is in three parts, and that's where the gotcha came in.
The manuscript file for part three is a single 300+ page document, and (especially since it will be PDF-only delivery), I went ahead and styled everything in one long document. That was the mistake. The “Part One,” “Part Two” and “Part Three” splash pages aren't part of the long single story, for obvious reasons. When I generated a TOC, the TOC entry for Part One showed up where it should, but Part Two and Part Three? — Way down at the end of the TOC, because they “come after” the main story in ID's internal logic.
Since there are only these two entries, it's not such a big deal to move them to the right place by hand. But it's annoying to know that I'll have to do that every time I refresh the TOC, which from experience with these authors will happen a number of times between now and the final edition. Grrr…
So I'm splitting the INDD into three parts and reassembling them in the Book Panel, just to save myself the annoyance. </rant>
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