Re: Contents Entry Format

[Jeff Kingston]

Easy if you know how much space you want to leave:

    @ContentsFormat { {1.5c @Wide number.} @NoDotSep title }

The inner braces may not be required, but they make the grouping
quite clear.  If you wanted Lout to work out how much space to
leave based on the maximum width of all the numbers, you're basically
trying to make a table, and the table of contents code was not set
up in that way at all, so you'd have to rewrite the lot and it would
be very hard to do.

I may have misremembered the name of the @NoDotSep symbol; it will
be documented in the table of contents section of the User's Guide.

Jeff
 

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:42:27 +0000, address@hidden wrote:
  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > I've a question about modifying the contents entry 
  > format.  The default from the book file is shown below.
  > 
  > # @ContentsFormat     { number @DotSep title  } # 
  > contents entry format
  > 
  > I'd like to replace or add to @DotSep, as explained 
  > below.
  > 
  > In the Lout User's Guide, if one looks at the table of 
  > contents, you'll note that when the listing goes from, 
  > say, 1.9. to 1.10., the text entries move over.  For 
  > example:
  > 
  > 1.9. Paragraph breaking
  > 1.10. Line spacing
  > 
  > What I would like to get would be:
  > 
  > 1.9.  Paragraph breaking
  > 1.10. Line spacing
  > 
  > Is there a way to get things to line up like this?
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > Dave