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• • April 8, 2015 at 11:46 pm #74478
    Charles Lattam

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    I would to create a TOC for Images in a catalogue, but of course InDesign’s reading direction from top to bottom works against my left-to-right picture arrangement. 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 alphabetically read consecutive numbering of the caption’s paragraph style, 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!

  • April 9, 2015 at 5:43 am #74487
    David Blatner

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    You can’t change the laws of physics (or InDesign). :-)

    Perhaps you could use x-references instead of the table of contents feature:
    https://creativepro.com/figure-numbering-in-indesign-and-cross-references-to-them.php

    or set up the numbering separately:
    https://creativepro.com/using-a-numbered-list-to-create-chapter-numbers-in-a-toc.php

  • April 9, 2015 at 9:34 am #74517
    Charles Lattam

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    Thanks you Boss. I have started to experiment with the cross-references; quite time-consuming to insert them one by one, but np. There is another issue however: I have numbered the captions with a tab (^t) following the number and used the “hanging indent” bringing the following lines on the same pitch.

    01…Painter: unknown
    ……Tripura State Museum

    The cross-reference however replaces the tab with one single space. I tested replacing the tab with four spaces but again only a single space appears. Then, I tried to tweak the cross-reference thinking there might be a way to include a tab between the number and a marker (such as the ‘P’ in painter. I failed. I am sorry to keep on bothering you.

  • April 9, 2015 at 10:12 am #74521
    David Blatner

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    I’m sorry, I can’t think of any good way around that.

  • April 10, 2015 at 6:14 am #74553
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Charles, you know another good article to read is:
    https://creativepro.com/setting-up-numbered-lists-that-jump-frames-in-cs3.php
    That might help a little with the numbering order?

  • April 10, 2015 at 7:23 am #74554
    Anonymous

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    If you are making the links with live captions, then you can move the captions separately to the images. If you take the captions off the images, stack them up into a line, then move them so they are only 1px on the artboard and the rest on the pasteboard, then InDesign will read them in the right order.

    This is obviously a hack, but I do love a hack! If you were passing this artwork on then you would have to document quite extensively what you have done, but if you are the only one working on the artwork it mught be an easier way of working than messing around with cross refs. Your actual visible captions might have to be dead text boxes rather than caption also which would be a pain.

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