Publisher Index formatted incorrectly when column width exceeded

[DGB2079]

Publisher version 1 had many errors when creating an index, but these have mostly disappeared in version 2. Well done. I'm still getting an error when I create an index if the index entry name and several page numbers overflow the column/page width. I get a page feed instead of a line feed.

If I go to the end of the line and enter a line feed (hit enter) the format is corrected. This is happening on the main entry.

Happens in V2.3.1 (and earlier V2 releases). My document page has a single column.

[NathanC]

Welcome to the forums @DGB2079,

Could you possibly provide a sample .afpub file where you're encountering this index problem along with a screenshot(s) so we can investigate further? I have provided a private upload link below if you don't want to share it publicly.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/baCNMJraOLfzgdx2xZqt

Many thanks

 

[MikeTO]

FYI I've recently tested the index feature with very long index entries and page number lists in very narrow columns and didn't see any issues.

It may have something to do with the index settings which are easy to mess up. Check each setting to see if you accidentally inserted a special character in there. The default settings are:

• After Topic: "," + en space
• Between Items: "," + space
• Between Ranges: en dash
• Before References: "." + space
• See: "See"
• See Also: "See Also"
• After See (Also): space
• After References: space

Note that the panel doesn't refresh between documents, so if you switch to another document the index settings from the first will be shown for the second and thus when you edit a setting in the second document, your starting point is the first document's value for the field. It's best to work on only one document at a time when modifying index settings.

Another possibility is that you've inserted a line break into an index topic which is easy enough to do, so look at that index topic that is having a problem. In this example, there's a line break after the word "and". The topic name is truncated at the line break (because it wraps to a second line that is hidden in the list view) but the line break character is shown in the reference below. The line break will impact the index.

You can insert a column or page break into an index entry but it won't hurt the index - Publisher will just truncate it at the break character.

Another possibility is that an index text style is messed up and you have a flow option enabled.

[DGB2079]

I have not got to the bottom of this but have got closer. I cannot create a new document that creates the problem.

in my original document I looked at the text styles tab. Index entry had +italics added to it, when I removed this the problem disappeared. Since the index text styles refer back to Index and Body I'm trying to find a combination that create the problem and apply that to a test document that I created. I will also reset text styles to factory settings and try to recreate the problem from that direction.

Where I had 10 or more pages referenced in the index I changed the text box width and the problem remained, so I don't see a problem in the entries in my document since all of them can create the problem. Changing the width also caused the problem in other entries when they overflowed a line.