Publisher - Unwanted paragraph breaks at the end of TOC

[felixmm]

Hello everyone!

I have recently arrived to the Affinity world from the Adobe world, and I'm trying to adjust to the Affinity workflow.

When making a TOC, I find that Publisher adds an end of story line break at the end of the TOC text frame. Is this the normal behavior? Is there a way to avoid this? If I delete it, it returns when I update the TOC.

I searched in the forum and on the internet but I could find any answer.

Thanks in advance.

[Oufti]

1 hour ago, felixmm said:

Publisher adds an end of story line break at the end of the TOC text frame. Is this the normal behavior? Is there a way to avoid this?

Could you elaborate on how this could be a problem? 

I don't see that it adds an end of story mark: there is always one at the end of any text, and it doesn't hurt.

If the frame is not linked to the following, it's normal that you have an end of story mark at the end. But if you add text after the last paragraph of the TOC, or link it to further pages, these will be inserted before the end of story mark (and won't be affected by updating the TOC — as long as they are in new paragraphs, i.e. after the last ¶ in the TOC). 

[felixmm]

Thank you, Oufti. You are right, there's always an end of story mark. As I can see it appears at the end of any text frame, but usually in the same line as the last piece of text. But in the case of the TOC, it appears after a paragraph break (which I guess comes from the original text where the TOC entry takes the info from). This difficults the text from being aligned vertically properly in its frame, since there is an extra line at the end, as you can see in this screenshot:

¿Any solution or workaround?

Thanks.

 

[MikeTO]

There will always be a paragraph break at the end of a TOC and there's nothing you can do to prevent this. It is because the TOC feature generates a complete TOC entry with a paragraph break and then searches for the next heading to add to the TOC. When it runs out of headings it has already added the paragraph break so you're always going to have an empty paragraph at the end.

[felixmm]

Thanks for your quick reply, Mike. So I guess the only solution is to delete that extra line manually after every TOC update.

Thanks to everyone! After more than 20 years of using Indesign, it's not easy to change the mindset, and all help is so welcome!

[MikeTO]

19 hours ago, felixmm said:

Thanks for your quick reply, Mike. So I guess the only solution is to delete that extra line manually after every TOC update.

Thanks to everyone! After more than 20 years of using Indesign, it's not easy to change the mindset, and all help is so welcome!

I don't think you need to delete the paragraph break. Your case is more difficult because you want to centre the TOC vertically, but just move the frame down by half of the paragraph leading value and it will be centred with the the extra paragraph intact.