kat

I replied without being near the pc so my fault for the wrong suggestion.
Glad you have found another way to get the result wanted.

I created 3 elipses without text>convert to curves> added 2 nodes> clicked both>break curve.
Thanks guys, didn't even have to leave Apub : )

Perhaps add a node on the textpath with the nodetool where the trim needs to be and delete the section or last node to actually trim.

In that case, I would advise to check if in Publisher Préferences > User Interface the delay set before displaying tooltips is not too long… 

If you only want a partial ellipse, it’s probably easiest if you add the text after trimming rather than before.

Like this?

Enregistrement de l’écran 2024-04-18 à 23.06.09.m4v Description:
I applied Italics to a paragraph, so the button highlighted to show something was changed from standard definition of the style, and after clicking on this button — with the popup message stating that it will update the style, according to where the cursor is placed —, all the paragraphs sharing this style are then set in italics. Once the style is updated, the button is greyed out. 
 
[Edit: I don't know why the video does not start from the beginning… 😲]
 

It would be good if a brief message were to pop up when you use it, rather than leaving the user to think that
 

@kat This is not a top menu but context toolbar for text frame.
The context toolbar always updates to show the options available for the currently selected tool.

 
This button (marked in red rect in above screenshot) is used to update paragraph style.
When you make some changes (overrides) in paragraph it is used to update the paragraph style to include those changes.
The mere fact that it is not dimmed, i.e. disabled, means that there are some overrides in the paragraph.
Am I right @MikeTO, or maybe I mixed something up?
 
That's right, you nailed it in the first reply post👍.
 

Centred is what I asked in my first reply. You can set it in Paragraph Style by clicking Spacing on the left and choosing Centre from Alignment.

Posted in bugs forum:

@kat Paragraph → Decorations as the name suggests, this is used to create decorations (left, top, right, bottom borders and fill), usualy to differentiate text blocks.
It is great for, when you want the apperance of a "pull qoute', or for coloured heading fill or underline. But it is not used, nor it can't to outdent punctuation characters like *.
Making punctuation marks like * outdented, what you're asking for, i think it's is called by pro typesetters a "Hanging punctuation" or "Exdentation". It's a microtypographic technique of typesetting punctuation marks and bullet points, most commonly quotation marks and hyphens, further towards the edge so that they do not disrupt the ‘flow’ of a body of text or ‘break’ the margin of alignment. It is so called because the punctuation appears to hang in the margin of the text and is not incorporated into the block or column of text.
That will be all when it comes to the theory.
In my opinion, "Hanging Punctuation" is best used when the text frame is fully with text, when there is no room to breathe between words (example bellow↓)
But I'm curious why you would want to use it for TOC? like you suggested earlier in this thread.

In APub it's quite a simple matter to make hanging punctuation.
This is typically done at the text style level (without manually selecting the character itself) in the Character → Optical Alignment section.
You can also do this at the character level (apply alignment to selected characters rather than to text style) by using the Character panel instead.
The whole procedure is simple:
In the Character → Optical Alignment section, change Type to 'Manual'. 
This invokes all the listed alignment rule presets, plus any added custom optical alignment rules. Click "Add" to add a new rule. Edit the rule.
Left — is used for the percentage of the character to be outdented at paragraph's Left Indent or tab stop.
Right — is used for the percentage of the character to be outdented at paragraph's right Indent or tab stop.
100% means the whole character's width will be outdented
Characters — The character to be optically aligned. The character you type in your paragraph that matches this character will be automatically aligned.
I hope this helps you a bit with the topic of outdenting *.
BTW @kat, I'm not a professional typesetter, I am a ful stack web-dev that likes to learn new things.😄

Each entry has a host of overrides applied. One of which is for the paragraph alignment, it is overridden to be Centred.

You can't add line breaks to a generated TOC without them being lost when you update the TOC.
If there are line breaks in the actual headings, you can choose to retain them in the TOC by deselecting the "Remove Line Breaks" checkbox in the TOC panel.
If you just need line breaks because a couple of headings are too long for your TOC design, this is a flaw in Publisher and you'll need to do it manually. For every book I publish in every app I've ever used, I always have a checklist of last-minute things to do before I export to PDF. For my Publisher manual, I have one heading that is too long for the TOC design and which breaks badly so I have to enter a manual line break in the TOC. I know it will be lost when I next update the TOC but it's the best I can do given the way Publisher works.
For example, see how Publisher (left) wraps the "AutoCorrect" heading in my TOC compared to how Microsoft Word (right) handles it. Publisher breaks the line after the tab whereas Microsoft Word always breaks before [corrected] the tab, creating a perfect dot leader. This is probably the way it was designed but it feels like a bug since I can't think of any other app that works this way so I'll report it in the bugs forum.
 
This is a somewhat rare case, if I reworded my heading so that it was shorter it would fit, or if I reworded it so it was longer and a word wrapped to the next line then it would have a proper dot leader. It's just these in-between cases that are an issue.

Yes, optical alignment works in a TOC and you could hang an asterisk outside the frame. You couldn't add space to the right of it and have the space outside the frame, too, though because optical alignment is limited to a single character. I'm unsure what TOC design this would achieve. @kat, could you share a picture of what you want?

That might be possible using the Optical Alignment settings, but I haven't tried it with those specific characters or in a TOC.

@kat If you're asking whether it's possible to have a negative value in the [First Line Indent] field in the spacing section of the "Paragraph" panel, then no.
APub does not allow negative values in this field. If you enter a negative value, it will be automatically corrected to 0p if you use picas or 0mm if you use milimeters as document units.
The equivalent for what you have on your screenshot (InDesign) in APub will be↓

In the Spacing options, if that's what yoou meant:

And, @kat, if you want to use the hyperlinks from within Afpub, just right-click on any line of the TOC and choose to 'go to the hyperlink target', i.e. the corresponding anchor in the body text. 
 
They are listed in the (by default hidden) Window > References > Anchor panel, where it's possible to change individually which will be exported as bookmarks in PDF or not. 

@kat I will add from my side that you can find the "Include hyperlinks" checkbox in the "Advanced" section in the PDF export options.

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@walt.farrell @MikeTO thx for the explanation why the TOC hyperlinks are not listed in the "Hyperlinks" panel.

There's nothing you need to do. Just generate your TOC and then export to PDF and include hyperlinks. 

It's by design. The hyperlinks from the TOC and cross-references are not listed in the hyperlinks panel because you cannot edit them. You can turn hyperlinks for the TOC and cross-references on or off but you can't edit them so there's no need to clutter up the hyperlinks panel with them.

@walt.farrell @Oufti,
I have a couple questions regardin the TOC hyperlinks and Hyperlinks panel.
The documentation says that the TOC will automatically create hyperlinks to page references.
But if you invoke the hyperlinks panel after generating the table of contents, there will be no trace of these hyperlinks.
I used "All Spreads" + "All Types" or "Anchor" to specify the area and type of hyperlinks I want to display, and there's nothing there.
For sure they have been created, as can be seen on the pages by the anchor symbol stuck to the first letter of the chapter headings, but they are missing in the "hyperlinks" panel. Is it normal?
In my opinion, if they were created byt the TOC, they should be listed in the "Hyperlinks" panel, and what's more, after updating the TOC, they should also be updated in the Hyperlinks panel in case the page reference or name would change.
Is there something I don't understand how it works? Is this a poor implementation or maybe a bug?

From Affinity documentation:
Any TOC or index that is generated will automatically create hyperlinks to page references.
 

That's from the Hyperlinks Panel page in the Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/hyperlinksPanel.html

If the hyperlinks were created automatically, they will be updated. But everything that you changed manually in the TOC after its generation will be lost if you update the TOC.