In the latest InDesign Magazine (65) Mike Rankin says “Unlike manually-applied formatting, the formatting from nested styles is not preserved in a table of contents. If you want that formatting in your TOC, you need to replicate the nested function in your TOC paragraph styles”.
I’ve tried and tried this. Many of the books I set up have foreign words in the chapter titles. All foreign words for this publisher are italicised (something which doesn’t get through to the variable running header which is another problem) and the italics come through to the ToC which is good — BUT if the last word of the chapter heading is italicised, then so in the page number. Drives me nuts. I’ve tried the nested style approach: no change up to Right Tab and then None as the Character Style up to Paragraph Return; setting up a specific Character Style of Regular and trying that. Trying the character style settings in the actual ToC dialogue boxes — no change. The only thing that works is my rubbish attempt at GREP, but at least that _does_ work.
So if there’s a nested style that will remove italics from the page number in the ToC, please could you let me know? It would be so much appreciated.
Thank you.
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