Extending and customizing the table of contents

[SamuelS]

Hi dear Community,

We have managed to display the headings and pages in the table of contents. But now we have the problem: we want to add two details to each tour heading. The distance and the length of the tour. And we want a red line on the left side. See screenshot. Is that possible? If so, what is the best way to do this?

Attention: the table of contents is automatically generated after the headings. The details should also be generated automatically. 

 

Thanks so much for your help!!

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, SamuelS.

The red line you could have automatically generated, by updating the appropriate Paragraph Text Style (e.g., TOC 1 Heading 1: Entry) to include a paragraph decoration.

However, I don't think there's any way to get extra text (your distances) added automatically; they would have to be part of the headings in the actual text. That is, if your heading was:

then you could get all of that into the TOC. The leader dots (......) would be on the second line, though.

[SamuelS]

Thank you very much for your help. I have a few questions, though.

1. " updating the appropriate Paragraph Text Style (e.g., TOC 1 Heading 1: Entry)"

How can I change paragraphs and text styles in this way? I can't find the styles.

2. "they would have to be part of the headings in the actual text"

Is it possible to insert but hide these details in the headings in the actual text? Or could I change the text there in the same color as the background so it won't be seen, but it appears in the table of contents?

Thank you

[walt.farrell]

Interesting questions, Samuel:

For 1: The styles will be visible in the Text Styles studio panel (View > Studio > Text Styles) but only after you have created the TOC initially, and (I think) only while you have the TOC selected in the document.

For 2: Yes, you can hide the 2nd line in the actual text, leaving it visible only in the TOC.

Unfortunately, however, I've realized that I don't know of a way to shade the background of the 2nd line (the distance measurements) in the TOC itself. There's no way to apply a separate character styling to that part of the entry in the TOC that I know of.

Anyway, here's a screenshot showing what I think you can do:

And here's the .afpub file that's I created to do that:  two-line-TOC.afpub

 

[Headway]

Hi SamuelS,
it is partly possible to generate something what you desire, but not exactely.
You have to insert the kilometer as own style (in this example Head 3) and not assign a color.
For text corrections you can temporarily set the color to black.
In the TOC the red side line is created in paragraph style Ihv 1: Head_ 2, the background for the kilometer in Ihv 1: Head_ 3.
You can see this in the attached example.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to make the points before the page number in roman and to set the color to black without changing back to the original version with every update of the TOC.
The TOC function seem to be somewhat buggy yet for me.
Maybe there are better options.

TOC_example.afpub