Hi
I produce a range of academic books and sometimes the chapter titles are quite long. When I generate the TOC the text will run to the right margin then wrap to the next line but now the page number sits under text at the right margin. There might be some settings or feature I haven’t thought of, but it’s eluded me so far!
In my trial-and-error attempts to achieve this, I wondered if a right indent (to wrap the long text before the right margin) combined with a tab set outside the indented right margin and a right indent tab () between the TOC text and page number might work. Unfortunately, that still just aligns the page number to the indented margin (well, as it should I guess). I manage styles consistently across the range by syncing with a dedicated styles master document and don’t want to have exceptions that could be overwritten in future updates, so a style-based solution is what I’m hoping for.
To date, I’ve generated the TOC and then gone through manually inserting line breaks in the chapter titles that need them. However, I will often have updated the TOC with each proof stage, so having to repeat this manual process every time is prone to error and just takes up time.
Is there some way to format the styles involved to wrap the lines short of the right margin so the page numbers always sit in a clear right-aligned column? I use dot leaders in case that causes problems with hacky-type solutions.
Thanks for any suggestions
Nick
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