Joe Swann

Thank you! That fixed it. That fix never would have occurred to me. And thank you for posting that book. I have downloaded it for reference. From perusing the TOC, it looks like you have lots of helpful info packed in there.

I think I have discovered a glitch in how Publisher does hierarchical sorting of TOC entries. I am creating a book with a short TOC and then a long TOC. The long TOC lists chapter titles and topic headings within each chapter. Both have their own style assigned. In the TOC setup for my long TOC, the chapter title style is checked and set to level 0, and the heading style is checked and set to level 1. For each chapter, there is some introductory text before the first heading appears. For those chapters where the introductory text is short enough that the first topic heading appears on the same page as the chapter title, that heading will be listed BEFORE its chapter title in the TOC. In other words, it looks like that topic is the last topic in the preceding chapter when reading the TOC. The page number is correct, it's just listed before the chapter it is actually in. In testing this, I went to a chapter where this wasn't occurring, inserted a heading paragraph on the chapter title page, updated the TOC, and that entry appeared out of order. I repeated this test by placing a second heading on that page and it, too, appeared out of order in the TOC. Changing the respective levels from 0 and 1 to 1 and 2 doesn't help. I have set a preflight check comment to remind me to fix this manually when the time comes to export for publishing, but it was just by chance that I noticed this going on in the first place.

I am working on a family history book, which has spawned two suggestions concerning the indexing feature in AP2. I am using the style override when adding new index markers. For example, when I mark an entry that identifies a person in a picture caption, I choose emphasis so that the entry will be italicized. Sometimes, in my haste, I forget to set this or can't remember if I did. I can see the mark in the index panel, but there is no indication of the style override, nor is there a way to edit it. All I can do is delete that marker and create it again. There needs to be some indicator as well as a way to edit this setting. In keeping with genealogical practice, I list all women by maiden name in the index. However, I am also creating additional index entries for each woman's married names with a "see" reference pointing to their maiden name entry. For example, Jane Jones Smith has a main index entry for "Jones, Jane" with an additional entry for "Smith, Jane," which points the reader to "Jones, Jane." It would be nice if the "see" entries didn't appear as suggestions when I set index marks for people. Thank you for listening.

@MikeTO, thank you for correcting my error. I can give a little more feedback on this quirky behavior now that I've had more time to play with it. First of all, if you don't clear the master page on the left side, place the text, then shift-click the link handle, AP creates the required number of pages and flows the text across them as you would expect. After doing that, it is an easy matter to clear the master on the first left page of the chapter, then apply a new master to the first right page of the chapter to make it look like the start of a chapter. This is not intuitive, which is why I didn't think to try it the first time around, but it does solve the problem. I would say the bug is more of an annoyance, except that the workaround is not readily apparent. I have also noticed that attempting to import a docx with embedded pictures seems to throw AP for a loop. It will place the text up to the point of the first picture and then stop. Maybe it is important to note that the docx file I am tinkering with was generated by Scrivener, not Word.

Hello, First of all, I am thoroughly enjoying Publisher! Thank you for producing it. Bug Report I installed the latest maintenance release of Publisher (v2.3.0) a day or two ago, and I believe there is a bug. I am working on a document that is set up for a book. One master page in this document is a two-page spread with large text boxes, both named "Body," on each page for the main flow of the book's content. The body text box on the left page it linked to its counterpart on the right page. I was trying to add another chapter to my book when I noticed the quirky behavior. Here's what I did: I added two pages to the end of the book based on the master page described above to give me a place to start my new chapter. I cleared the master page on the left page because I want my chapter to start on the right. I placed the text for the new chapter into the text box on the right page. The text appeared and overfilled the box as expected. I shift-clicked the link handle on the lower right edge of the text box to auto-flow the text. Publisher did create the number of pages needed to auto-flow all the text in my chapter. It did not link the right body box on each spread to the left body box on the next spread. When I linked them manually the text flowed correctly for the two pages on that spread. This was working correctly before the update. I did repeat this process, but pasting my text in as described in step 3 rather than placing the text; same results. Feature Requests Picture captions: It would be nice to have a checkbox for a picture that turned on a ready-made caption text box below the picture. Refer to Apple's Pages for my inspiration for this feature. Apply style preference: I like defining a keyboard shortcut to a text style and assigning it that way. What I wish I could do is set a preference for how that behaves. Often, I would like to preserve character formatting to avoid losing text I have italicized for emphasis or because it is a title. I can't do that when I use the keyboard shortcut. Printer's spreads: I work on a small newsletter that is a 20-page booklet that is saddle stitched. My printer would find it helpful if I could generate what he calls "printer's spreads" rather than what he calls "reader's spreads." The spreads Publisher makes on exporting have the mages in numerical order. He needs a set of spreads where the pages are sorted by signature. So the spreads would be something like 1/20 and 2/19, 3/18 and 4/17, 5/16 and 6/15, etc. If I could generate that with printer's marks it would be most helpful.