Re: Contents formatting oddity

[Albert Kinderman]

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> 
> 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


But what would you suggest for 

Less typical but even longer than previous
contents entry . . . . . . . . . . . .  PgNum  ?

The question appear to be what is the minimum number of leaders to
appear on a line before the PgNum.  You are arguing for the minimum to
be zero while lout uses a minimum of 1.  Should this be an option in a
setup file?

Al

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Albert Kinderman             California State University, Northridge
Systems and Operations Management          address@hidden