Re: Contents formatting oddity

[Jeff Kingston]

I'll look into it.  It should be easy to find an example that springs
the problem.

I remember that it was a pain in the neck to get those leaders right
in the case of multi-line entries.  So I'm rather concerned that fixing
this problem as well will prove to be too complex.

I think the best thing you could do would be to make your header a bit
longer.  Then it will definitely occupy two lines and the layout will look
fine again.  Alternatively, you could increase the @ContentsRightWidth
setup file option a bit, which would have the same effect.

Jeff Kingston



On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:14:41 +0000, address@hidden wrote:
  > 
  > 
  > Jeff,
  > 
  > When using the book format to generate a table of contents, one typically 
gets
  > something like the following:
  > 
  > Typical Contents Entry . . . . . . . . PgNum
  > 
  > This is all fine and good and as expected.  But, in cases where one has a 
very
  > long title for the entry in the table of contents, taking up the full line, 
one
  > gets something like the following:
  > 
  > Less typical very long contents entry
  > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PgNum
  > 
  > So, instead of just putting the page number, with no leader, after the text
  > portion of the entry, one gets a whole line of leader and a page number.
  > 
  > This behaviour seems less than desirable.  Or, I would have expected the 
following:
  > 
  > Less typical very long contents entry PgNum
  > 
  > Could this be fixed for the forthcoming stable release?  If you need me to
  > supply sample lout code, let me know.
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > Dave