Table of Contents: Numbers and Title aligned left

[activedesigner]

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a former indesign project that I'm moving to affinity publisher. I'm getting a bit desperate after having tryed for more than an hour how to rebuild the table of contents:

It later should look like this. 

1    Introduction
2    First Chapter
3    Second Chapter

Using a few normal spaces as seperators does the job pretty well until we reach page 10 - of course, then, because of the second number, the title is not aligned to the titles above. In indesign it was easy to solve with a tab as separator. However, affinity then aligns the titles to the right and keeps the numbers left, which also can't be changed in the styles. Although I overwrite everything by aligning it to the left, it still isn't.

Any ideas how to deal with that issue?

Thanks a lot,
Philip 

[Dan C]

Hi activedesigner,

Welcome to the forums

On 7/27/2019 at 5:27 PM, activedesigner said:

However, affinity then aligns the titles to the right and keeps the numbers left, which also can't be changed in the styles.

This seems to be a bug with TOC, I've tried adding the Tab as a separator and manually and in both occasions the title jumps to the right hand side of the text box regardless of settings.

I'll get this logged with our developers, in the meantime I recommend turning off the numbers option for TOC and manually adding a Numbered List to each entry, this will correctly add a tab separator after each number to keep your headings aligned, however this will not be update-able through the TOC studio, my apologies.

I hope this helps!

[activedesigner]

Hi Dan C,

 

thank you very much; I hope Serif fixes the bug soon. Until then, I simply created another TOC and used two layers to hide either the Content or the numbers and aligned them in the opposite way each. That works and also is update-able; however, not the very best solution. 

[Old Bruce]

Here is the way I set it up

And here is the result

There is a sort of counter-intuitive stuff thinking with the size of the tabs, 5 picas from the left but then the 1 pica is from the right for the right aligned page numbers.

[activedesigner]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Here is the way I set it up

And here is the result

There is a sort of counter-intuitive stuff thinking with the size of the tabs, 5 picas from the left but then the 1 pica is from the right for the right aligned page numbers.

Thank you very much! That is amazing and works perfectly fine! Good idea! – After having it set up once, you can even remove the right tab stop entirely. It seems to have reminded Affinity what a tab really means.  

[Magdalena Dróżdż]

I enter this data, but it does not change anything for me. Has anything changed since then how you guys did it?

Edited March 12, 2021 by Magdalena Dróżdż