Index - group page range min threshold ignored

[MikeTO]

This is very minor. The help page for the index panel: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Panels/indexPanel.html?title=Index panel

states for the group page ranges feature "when checked, ranges of three or more consecutive page numbers will be grouped"

However, even two consecutive page numbers will be grouped as shown in this test document.

index range.afpub

 

[stokerg]

Hi @MikeTO,

Thanks for reporting this.

I'll get this passed over to the Documentation team  

[MikeTO]

5 hours ago, stokerg said:

Hi @MikeTO,

Thanks for reporting this.

I'll get this passed over to the Documentation team  

Thanks. I wasn't sure if this was a mistake in the documentation or a bug. I imagine the intention of the 3-page minimum was that 7, 8 was better than 7–8 but that 7–9 was better than 7, 8, 9. Maybe this should be considered for a bug fix instead of a doc fix?

[Hangman]

21 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Thanks. I wasn't sure if this was a mistake in the documentation or a bug. I imagine the intention of the 3-page minimum was that 7, 8 was better than 7–8 but that 7–9 was better than 7, 8, 9. Maybe this should be considered for a bug fix instead of a doc fix?

FWIW, the majority of indexes I've seen use the notation 41-42 rather than 41, 42, though there seems to be no hard and fast rule, I've seen others that do use 41, 42 and others still use 41-2, the help page for Publisher shows 57-58...

[Mark Daniel]

I haven't double checked but if my recollection is correct the documentation describes what the code did originally and then at some point there was a request to change the behaviour and it looks like the documentation was never updated.

Mark

 

[MikeTO]

44 minutes ago, Mark Daniel said:

I haven't double checked but if my recollection is correct the documentation describes what the code did originally and then at some point there was a request to change the behaviour and it looks like the documentation was never updated.

Thanks Mark, makes sense. I can see how some people would prefer it one way or the other. I don't have a strong preference.