Publsiher index formatting

[weegiegrum]

I can see the various index text styles,  but is there a setting that will force sub-topics in the index to auto-indent? It seems a bit tedious if I have to apply separate styles to all the sub-topics manually.

 

[h_d]

How are you creating the sub-topics?

If I set up an index and add sub-topics through the Index panel, my Text Styles panel automagically creates new numbered "Index Entry [x]" styles which are incrementally indented:

You can of course edit these styles by clicking the 'hamburger' menu button to the right of each one and modifying the settings, including the indentation.

Cheers,

H

[weegiegrum]

Should have said, I'm on a Windows desktop PC. Publisher 1.8.5.703

Possibly I'm doing this wrong... I was marking the index entries from the 'find' dialogue and using the index hotkeys, then adding the sub-topic and topic in the pop-up box, not via the index panel. They seem to be  properly indented in the index panel, but when I insert the index, they're all in default text style - maybe because I didn't specify an index entry?

Here's the index panel and the index page. I've just selected my normal body text style here; when I select and index style I get large gaps between lines (as in your example), and I haven't worked out how to reduce the leading on those. Paragraph spacing options aren't doing it.

I've also noticed that double-clicking on an index entry does not take you to the relevant page in the document, it goes to some page, but not the one the entry is on.

Grahame

 

 

[h_d]

1 hour ago, weegiegrum said:

Windows desktop PC. Publisher 1.8.5.703

Should work the same for both of us.

It's late here in Ipswich & I may not answer very succinctly, but...

Paragraph spacing: I didn't make any modifications to the styles in the small index I created in the shots above, so the default index style, which is based on Base, is picking up a "Space After" (not leading) of 12pt from the Base style. If I edit Base, changing 12pt to 0pt, then the paragraph spacing of my index closes up:

Indentation: If you apply your own Body text style directly to every element of the index, then any incremental indentation will be overridden. You need to start by defining Base, then Body from that, and then generate the index - the indentation of the automatically named and numbered Index Entry [x]  styles will be applied automatically with your own font, spacing and alignment settings carried through. You can then modify the individual index styles to adjust the indentation.  I'll try to put something together which describes the process, but it won't be tonight. Meanwhile, look at the "Based on" element of the numbered Index Entry styles and track back through the original Index Entry, then Index, to find where the additional spacing is coming from:

       

Numbering inconsistency: Looking at your screen shots, the page numbers in the index panel don't match up to the entries in the index on the page. That would explain why double-clicking on an index entry takes you to a differently numbered page, but I don't know what you have done to make that happen. It could be to do with section numbering, (the consistent difference of 16 pages between index panel and index may be significant), but without seeing the entire document it's impossible to tell. 

Cheers, 

H

 

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, weegiegrum said:

Possibly I'm doing this wrong... I was marking the index entries from the 'find' dialogue and using the index hotkeys, then adding the sub-topic and topic in the pop-up box, not via the index panel. They seem to be  properly indented in the index panel, but when I insert the index, they're all in default text style - maybe because I didn't specify an index entry?

For me, the index is automatically indented properly:

We might give you a quicker resolution if you can provide a sample document (just a few pages) set up as you set up the one that has problems. Then we can see if there's something you did, without having to guess at what might have caused your issues.

[weegiegrum]

13 hours ago, h_d said:

 You need to start by defining Base, then Body from that, and then generate the index - the indentation of the automatically named and numbered Index Entry [x]  styles will be applied automatically with your own font, spacing and alignment settings carried through.

Thanks H, having slept on it, I realised that was the problem. When I populated the index pages, I hadn't specified index entry text, so the font size was huge and I changed it to body text - which of course mucked up the formatting. Having re-done the index after editing the 'index' text styles, the entries indent properly.

 

Many thanks for the help.

G

[h_d]

No probs!

[weegiegrum]

Re the numbering thing... I think I've figured this out. It appears to be because the working index window is showing  the global document page numbers and not taking into account any section numbering. I have 16 pages of introductory stuff using Roman numerals as per standard book formatting, with the 'proper' numbering starting at 1 on the 17th page.

The numbers in the populated index do accurately reflect the page numbers as in the text.