Unable to to add "Right Indent Tab" separator to an Index

[Evan Oberholster]

In the Index section of Affinity publisher I am trying to add a separator between the index item and the page number. Currently I am unable to add the "Right indent Tab" separator, when I click on it nothing happens. As a side note I am able to add the other separators.

Does anyone know if this is a bug or have a suggestion as to how to solve this issue?

The only other thing I can think of is to manually add Right Indent tabs to each Index item, but that would take a long time.

 

Thank you Kindly.

[lacerto]

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[Evan Oberholster]

@Lagarto I am very grateful for your help with this. Works excellent!

[garrettm30]

Although a workaround was offered, it doesn't seem like the original problem has been resolved. I came to this thread looking for a solution, because the Separator drop down in the Index Studio, as pictured in the original post, does offer Right Indent Tab as an option, but it does nothing when you select it. Additionally, if you try to copy and paste a right indent tab into the input field, a regular tab is inserted instead.

I have tried this in both Publisher 1.10.1 and Publisher beta 1.10.2.1167 on macOS 11.5.2. This should be acknowledged as a bug.

[MikeTO]

I think you should report this as a bug in the bug forum, it's definitely a bug.

Coincidentally I was playing around with indices and tabs today, trying to create an index like this:

I wanted to insert an index mark with a tab stop in it so I entered "Apples\tA-3" as the index mark hoping the \t would be converted to a tab since the Index feature uses that to separate page numbers from index entries. But no luck, it rendered as \t so as far as I can see there's no way to create a 3-column index with an additional reference. I want to use this for map coordinates, so that readers can find both the page and map location when using the index. I guess I'll have to just put the map coordinates in parentheses but that would be less elegant.

But my point was I gave the index feature a good workout today and I believe Lagarto's workaround is the only way to do what you want. However, it's an excellent workaround and for a 1-minute investment you'll get the results you want.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

I guess I'll have to just put the map coordinates in parentheses but that would be less elegant.

You might use a construct like Apples!!!A-3 and later use Find/Replace to turn !!! Into a tab.

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You might use a construct like Apples!!!A-3 and later use Find/Replace to turn !!! Into a tab.

That's a good idea, thanks!