Publisher - table of contents in two languages

[Cakru]

Hello,

I need some help in Affinity Publisher.

For a journal I would like to make a table of contents in two languages. I already now the basic principles and I made separate headline styles for both languages. Now I don't now how to arrange it.

It should look like this:

Headline Language one   Page1   Headline Language two

Maybe someone can help

The Pages have articles for one language on the left side of a page and the right side for the other language.

kind regards

Cay

Edited June 23, 2022 by Cakru

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Publisher does not support having the page number in the middle. 

Other than building that TOC manually, I'm not sure there's anything you can do except generate two TOCs. Though, with two TOCs, in separate text frames, you could have the page number on the right for the first language, and no page number for the second language, Then you could arrange the two text frames beside each other, and align them so the entries for the second language lined up with the entries for the first language.

[Cakru]

Dear Walt,

thanks for your reply. That was also my thought. I had hoped that there was another solution without the risk of wrong alignments for the headlines.

I´ll try your way.

kind regards

Cay

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

I think the risk of misalignment should be minimal if:

1. Every article has a headline in both languages.
2. The headline for each language has the same number of lines of text.
3. You use a Baseline Grid for your document (or, perhaps, just for those text frames).

My point #3 also generated another idea: the alignment of the frames might be easier if you used 1 frame, with two columns. You could generate the first TOC in the left column, then insert a Column Break character manually. Then generate the second TOC in the right column.

[Cakru]

Dear Walt,

thanks a lot for the idea. I´ll try it. I have to find out how to make this column brake.

kind regards

Cay

[walt.farrell]

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