Adding caption to tables and images for indexing

[fabio.florian]

Is there any way in Affinity Publisher to add captions for indexing purposes? If not, any workaround available. Thank You.

[Komatös]

Hi @fabio.florian and welcome to the forum.

 

You can do this using numbering and bullets.
Create a paragraph style for table numbering and image numbering.

Select the numbering type and edit the text.
Place the writing cursor at the beginning of the input field.
Under Restart numbering at select manual only
Enter a suitable list name under Name and check global

[fabio.florian]

@Komatös Thanks a lot and I was also able to continue the numbering across stories setting "Restart numbering" to Below current level.

 

Now I need to make the list of Table and Figures as per my screenshot, but the Table of Content works only with Heading 1 or Heading 2..

[Komatös]

@fabio.florian

If you have the Studio tab Table of Contens  open, under Styles select the paragraph style for which you need the table of contents.

[walt.farrell]

59 minutes ago, fabio.florian said:

but the Table of Content works only with Heading 1 or Heading 2..

It will work with any Paragraph Text Styles that you have defined.

[Oufti]

10 hours ago, Komatös said:

@fabio.florian

If you have the Studio tab Table of Contens  open, under Styles select the paragraph style for which you need the table of contents.

I was used to do so with other word processors but with APub, I can't select different styles (as source paragraphs) for different tables of content (TOC)? — E.g. List of chapters, then List of tables, then List of figures (not necessarily grouped altogether at the end). 

I would like to use, let's say, paragraphs styles Heading 1 & Heading 2 for the chapters, Heading 5 for the tables and Heading 6 for the figures. 

For example, after selecting and updating the TOC3 (List of the figures) by clicking the circled arrows in the Studio tab Table of Contents so that I'm certain the TOC3 is selected in the main window, I tick the styles I want to use as source for this specific TOC (Heading 6) but as a result all TOC are updated with the content targeted by this new style. 😲

In short :
How can we have separated tables, with different contents based on different styles?

Edited June 30, 2023 by Oufti
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[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, Oufti said:

I was used to do so with other word processors but with APub, I can't select different styles (as source paragraphs) for different tables of content (TOC)? — E.g. List of chapters, then List of tables, then List of figures (not necessarily grouped altogether at the end). 

You would make multiple TOCs in your Publisher file. One for the chapters, another for the tables, and another for the figures. Then just choose the appropriate Paragraph Text Styles for each.

 

[fabio.florian]

I created a new Paragraph Style "Table Caption" but no Table of Content entries found

Table Caption TOC.afpub

[Komatös]

@fabio.florian

You have forgotten to activate the style  in the Studio Panel "Table of content"

[Oufti]

7 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You would make multiple TOCs in your Publisher file. One for the chapters, another for the tables, and another for the figures. Then just choose the appropriate Paragraph Text Styles for each.

It looks like it's what I've done but I must miss something…

My book has already 4 (apparently) different TOC — three for each section and one recapitulative — but it is as they were all linked, at least for choosing Paragraph Text Styles. 

When I choose one style to include in a table, it appears in every table… 

I am not able to choose different sets of styles for different kind of TOC.When I want to add the "Titre 4" style (in red) to the 4th TOC, this choice is immediately reflected in TOC 1-3.

I join a shortened version of the file. 

 

Livre de recettes, demo.afpub

[fabio.florian]

I got it, thank you guys 🍾🍾🍾

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Oufti said:

I am not able to choose different sets of styles for different kind of TOC.When I want to add the "Titre 4" style (in red) to the 4th TOC, this choice is immediately reflected in TOC 1-3.

All of your TOCs have different TOC names, but they share the same TOC Style (TDM 3):

If you create a separate TOC Style for each one, you will get what you want. The 3-bar icon to the right of the name (TDM 3, here) has an option to create additional TOC styles.

 

[Oufti]

Thank you very much. I wouldn't have guessed that on my own! 
From my point of view, a style is a way of presenting things, not a criterion for determining content... 

Now I just have to work out how to transfer the TDM 3 formatting (font, spacing, etc.) to this new style...

[Komatös]

8 hours ago, fabio.florian said:

I got it, thank you guys 🍾🍾🍾

 

You are welcome.

[fabio.florian]

Using Heading 1 the TOC has the page number, but with my new TOC 1; Table Caption Paragraph style, I cannot get the page number! Any suggestion? Thanks

 

[Oufti]

You can choose to include the page number, or not, by clicking the three bars (so called "hamburger") button on the right of the chosen style names in the TOC sidepanel. 

Edited July 6, 2023 by Oufti
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