TOC sorting entries right

[GeirSol]

Hi! I make a TOC, with entries like:

• Act
  • Scene
    • Number

But, for pages that has entries on same page I get numbers listed before scene. Like under. This is wrong.
I've got the actual entries with scene above (in layer and visual) number, but it doesn't sort right. How do get this correct?

[walt.farrell]

Within the same page, the entries will be sorted based on several factors.

1. If they are in different text objects, the text in objects closer to the bottom of the Layers stack in the Layers panel will appear earlier in the TOC.
2. If they are in the same text object, the text that appears first in the object will appear earlier in the TOC.

If you have Pinned any text objects into a Text Frame, I think that will override #1 and make that text behave more like #2, but I have not experimented much with that.

[GeirSol]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Within the same page, the entries will be sorted based on several factors.

1. If they are in different text objects, the text in objects closer to the bottom of the Layers stack in the Layers panel will appear earlier in the TOC.
2. If they are in the same text object, the text that appears first in the object will appear earlier in the TOC.

If you have Pinned any text objects into a Text Frame, I think that will override #1 and make that text behave more like #2, but I have not experimented much with that.

Ah, thanks! That was the opposite logic of what I expected. As from the visual POV the layer on top is first.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, GeirSol said:

Ah, thanks! That was the opposite logic of what I expected. As from the visual POV the layer on top is first.

There are several aspects of the Affinity suite that work this way, and it's based on a painting/canvas paradigm. When you paint overlapping paint strokes on a canvas, the strokes painted first are closer to the canvas, thus on the bottom of the layer stack.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

There are several aspects of the Affinity suite that work this way, and it's based on a painting/canvas paradigm. When you paint overlapping paint strokes on a canvas, the strokes painted first are closer to the canvas, thus on the bottom of the layer stack.

You could also think about it like how buildings are constructed from the foundation upwards with each new floor added above the last; or more generally how things are stacked with the first item at the bottom & each item added above the last, like stacking dishes in a cupboard.