Re: formatting TOC

[Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Taranov Alexander wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> My question is concerning formatting TOCs.
> 
> Thanks to Sebastian Ratz, now leader is working in jadetex.
> 
> but consider following rule taken from
>  DSSSL style sheet for HTML 3.2 print output
> by Jon Bosak:
> 
> (define ($toc-entry$ level)
>   (make paragraph
>         use: para-style
>         start-indent: (+ %body-start-indent%
>                          (* %toc-indent% (+ 1 level)))
>         first-line-start-indent: (* -3 %toc-indent%)
>         quadding: 'start
>         (literal (NUMLABEL level))
>         (make link
>               destination: (current-node-address)
>               (with-mode #f (process-children-trim)))
>         (make leader (literal "."))
>         (current-node-page-number-sosofo)))
> 
> it works ok until names of sections become too long and output looks
> like:
> 
> 1. Short title ......................3
> 2. It is very very very very very very
>    long title........................7
> 
> but i prefer output of the form
> 
> 1. Short title ......................3
> 2. It is very very very very very
>    very long title...................7
> 
> Is it possible by playing with last-line-end-indents
> or something like that ??
> 

Yes, all you need to specify in the (make paragraph ...) is:

	end-indent: .5in
        last-line-end-indent: -.5in

-dan

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