Larry Spiegl wrote:

[..] This can't be that unusual/impossible, separating paragraph styles on the same line is it?

 

It is. The TOC works by gathering the paragraphs with the paragraph styles you specify, nothing in there looking for character styles or single line composer or any of the other things you tried. It's as straightforward as you can get (All Limitations Intended™).

Three fairly often mentioned solutions are:

1. Endure it. Generate your TOC and edit as desired. You need to do this every time you re-generate the TOC, of course.

2. Fake it. Create a new paragraph style, but this time using a tiny font (0.1 pt, or something nearby), a 0 pt leading, and [None] Fill Color. Insert your TOC-to-be text as close to the original text you wanted to pick up (but you must make sure it cannot end up a page earlier) and apply this paragraph style.

3. Post a Feature Request at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and wait for Adobe to implement this in an easier way.

I usually circumvent having to edit the TOC again and again by only generating it once, and replacing the "typed" page numbers with live cross references to the actual pages. A b**** bother to set up, but afterwards I can move text around at will and remove or add pages without having to generate the TOC, as the cross references are live.

Hi, Larry:

I'm not clear on what you're asking, though it seems that other responders are quite clear.

Without a screen shot, I'm guessing, that your source document has bulleted main heading paragraphs followed by bulleted sub-heading paragraphs, and that you want to keep the bullets in the main heading TOC entries, and drop the bullets from the sub-heading TOC entries.

If this is indeed what you want to do, you can drop the bullet from a bulleted TOC entry for a bulleted source paragraph, by creating and specifying a non-bulleted paragraph style for the TOC process to apply to the generated sub-heading's TOC entry.

However, I'm a FrameMaker user, so I'm wondering if you're thinking of FrameMaker's "run-in" paragraph format property (AKA paragraph style in InDesign) that allows a paragraph to be followed by another paragraph on the same line; this permits a generated TOC to capture the desired source paragraph separately from others on the same line, which appears as if the TOC is grabbing part of a paragraph's line. ID lacks this run-in paragraph property. It's something you can request in the feature request form, mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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Larry Spiegl wrote:

 

Hi, I'm trying to format sub-headings to be included in my Table of

Contents separately from the bullets that precede them in my document.

That is, I want the sub-headings to have a different paragraph style than

the bullets, so the bullets aren't included in the TOC. I can't use a hard

return, as they belong on the same line in the document, but separate in

the TOC.

Will InDesign let me? I've tried inserting Discretionary Line Breaks,

Ending Nested Styles, the Keep Option - trying to Keep the bullet with the

previous paragraph, single-line composer, InCopy assignments, etc. and

nothing works. Whatever paragraph style I make the subheading becomes the

same with + to the bullet, or vice versa.This can't be that

unusual/impossible, separating paragraph styles on the same line is it?

Shouldn't be.

Larry