Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC cannot obtain a consistant display of items

Hi Thomas

You need to read the TOC-dialog very carefully.

Tab "Type"
==========
Part 'Create Index of Table of Contents' allows you to restrict the 
scope of the TOC and the depth of the TOC.

Part 'Create From' allows you to determine what is included in the TOC. 
The option "Headings" refers to those headings, whose styles are 
assigned in menu Tools > Heading numbering (former Chapter numbering). 
The option "Additional styles" allows you to include headings with 
whatever style you have used for them and to determine, on which level 
of the TOC they are shown.

So for the TOC at the beginning of your book, you could use the scope 
"Entire document" and restrict it to level 1.
For the TOC of the individual chapters, you can use the scope "Chapter".

If you do not want the chapter heading to be included in the chapter 
TOC, uncheck "Headings" and use "Additional styles" instead. You can set 
the heading inside the chapter on level 1 of the TOC then.

Tab "Styles"
============
The style of an item in the TOC is not determined by the style of the 
heading. Instead each level in the TOC has a style assigned. Default are 
the styles "Contents 1" to "Contents 10". So if you find some item on a 
TOC level to large or have unsuitable font or need a color, then you 
should alter the corresponding "Contents" style.
But you are not restricted to the "Contents"-styles. In this tab you can 
assign your own paragraph style to an item level of the TOC.

Kind regards
Regina



Thomas Blasejewicz schrieb am 04.10.2024 um 09:52:
> Good afternoon
> I am sorry to bother the list, but I am writing a book and
> have been toiling literally for weeks now, but still cannot manage to 
> make the "Table of Contents" function work.
> At least not properly.
> Here is what I did.
> Windows 10, LO 7.6 and 24.8
> I am trying to put a TOC that shows ONLY the chapter names at the 
> beginning of the book, somehow managed to do that now,
> and then separate TOCs showing the sections in that particular chapter.
> Defined (1) chapter heading to indicate the chapter breaks
> (2) different style for a subheading given the name of the chapter - so 
> to prevent it appear in the main TOC twice (that always happened in the 
> beginning)
> (3) heading for individual sections within each chapter
> (4) heading for subsections in each chapter
>
> These styles use too big font and/or spacing, so I created separate 
> styles to represent the above styles in the TOC.
> Have registered the four styles under Tools -> Heading numbering.
>
> In my attempts at setting up the TOC for individual chapters I selected 
> the styles that should appear in the TOC both under
> "Type" and "Styles"
>
> For 1-2 chapters I think I succeeded, but in other chapters I get:
> chapter title followed by the TOC, but at the top of the TOC there is 
> again the chapter name = redundant.
> As I said, for 1-2 chapter TOCs I managed to get something WITHOUT the 
> chapter name (in a funny style),
> but trying to apply the exact same setting for other chapters gives me 
> the choice
> 1) TOC with redundant chapter name or
> 2) TOC showing ONLY the redundant chapter name.
>
> I tried just about every conceivable setting / combination of these 
> styles, but just cannot get rid of those redundant chapter names.
> Printed the documentation, underlining things probably important, but 
> probably I am just too stupid.
>
> If anybody could point me to this ONE trick, I would be eternally grateful.
> Thank you
> Thomas


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