Publisher-Table of Contents Question : Indent in TOC Style

[designably yours]

I am a new user with Infinity Publisher so please be patient with my silly question - I am trying to indent the text in a TOC style and cannot find exactly where to apply the indent. Please help.

[walt.farrell]

It would help to have a screenshot that shows what you want to accomplish, as there are several possible interpretations of the question and several possible approaches.

[designably yours]

Hi, Screen shot attached - I can't work out why there is so much space and dots behind the General - why does it not act like the rest of the TOC. 

I have put arrows beside the wording in the TOC that I want to indent - but not sure where to find the setting.  I don't want it indented in the wording body of the document.

As I say I am new to Affinity - having come from Adobe InDesign - and It's just a matter of learning where things are and how to use etc.

Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Regards

Desley

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. Can you create a sample .afpub  document that you could upload? It would only need the pages that contain those three headers, and the page with the TOC.

 

[designably yours]

Hi Walt,

Thank you so much for helping me.

Am uploading the draft document.  This is the first pattern I have tried to do using Affinity, so please ignore the chaos.

Many regards

Desley

Merry Xmas Hoop Pattern-Test.afpub

[Dan C]

Hi @designably yours 

14 hours ago, designably yours said:

I can't work out why there is so much space and dots behind the General - why does it not act like the rest of the TOC. 

I used Text > Show Special Characters to identify that there are 2 'tabs' in this line, unlike the other lines of your TOC. Deleting one of these tabs returns the TOC line to the expected view:

14 hours ago, designably yours said:

I have put arrows beside the wording in the TOC that I want to indent - but not sure where to find the setting.  I don't want it indented in the wording body of the document.

You can achieve this using the Paragraph Studio, simply select the 2 lines you wish to alter, then increase the Left Indent value until you're happy with the results:

I hope this helps!

[walt.farrell]

17 hours ago, designably yours said:

I have put arrows beside the wording in the TOC that I want to indent - but not sure where to find the setting.  I don't want it indented in the wording body of the document.

I'm unsure if you mean you want them to be indented only in the TOC, or if you also want them to be indented in the document page. You have assigned to them a Paragraph Text Style named "Heading 2 - Indent" but they are not indented on the document page.

If you want them indented on the document page you would update "Heading 2 - Indent" in the Text Styles panel, and set the Left Indent in the Paragraph Spacing section.

If you want them indented in the TOC, you could use the Paragraph panel as @Dan C suggested. Alternatively, you could place the text cursor within the TOC, which will make the TOC-related text styles appear in the Text Styles panel. You could then edit "TOC1: Heading 2 - Indent" in the Text Styles panel, and change the left indent to the amount you'd like. The TOC will update as you do this, but if you don't like the effect you can alter it or Cancel from the text style editing dialog.

[designably yours]

THANK YOU DAN.C and WALT!!!!!!   SOOO helpful and I am so vey thankful. Affinity is an awesome product, but when you come from Adobe it's like learning a new language - you  know what you want to say but don't quite know the words to ask to achieve the outcome. 

So I probably would have been delayed a long time trying to work this out without your help.

Please accept my sincere thanks.

Desley