Sections and sub-sections

[DannyBowen]

I am trying to create a book with chapters that are grouped together into sections so that the Table of Contents formats properly and both section and chapter names are available for insertion in the footer. In other words, I am wanting to nest sections and sub-sections. Is there a way to do that or is there a workaround? 

 

[Dan C]

Hi @DannyBowen,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

Our apologies for the delayed response here!

On 9/24/2021 at 10:10 PM, DannyBowen said:

available for insertion in the footer

Unfortunately Affinity Publisher doesn't currently support headers/footers as a feature, however you are of course able to manually create a 'footer' in your document with a text frame.

On 9/24/2021 at 10:10 PM, DannyBowen said:

I am wanting to nest sections and sub-sections. Is there a way to do that or is there a workaround? 

Unfortunately I'm not 100% certain what you mean by this, could you please expand on what you're hoping to achieve? I have found that 'sub-sections' are referred to on the Adobe support forums for InDesign, but these refer mostly to Text Styles, which you can use in Affinity either within your Sections, or within a TOC.

Many thanks in advance!

[Old Bruce]

On 9/24/2021 at 2:10 PM, DannyBowen said:

I am trying to create a book with chapters that are grouped together into sections so that the Table of Contents formats properly and both section and chapter names are available for insertion in the footer. In other words, I am wanting to nest sections and sub-sections. Is there a way to do that or is there a workaround? 

If you are talking about something like ... oh hell Lord of the Rings with its 6 books divided into chapters then yes.

Book 1

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Book 2

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

What you need to do is set up two Paragraph Styles Book Name and Chapter Name then you can add both of them to the ToC. Be careful not to use the Book Name as a Paragraph style for a running header or you'll wind up with a listing in the ToC for every single page with that running header.