Re: [libreoffice-users] Proper format for ToC

On 18/11/2024 21:02, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I'm running LO 24.8.3 on Xubuntu 24.04.1. I have a book I wrote in a
> single .odt file all set to go for print export to PDF, EXCEPT:
>
> The ToC lists the book title, "By" and my author name with all the
> dots leading across to page number 1 (3 lines). The Toc pages also
> have page numbers in the page footers.
>
> I'd like to eliminate the dotted lines for the title, by, and author
> name, including the page numbers for them. I'd be satisfied with not
> having these entities in the Toc altogether.
>
> How do I do that?
The TOC is built using the outline levels of the heading styles you assigned to chapter headings and 
subsidiary headings. If the book title has been included, did you use H1 for the title and author names? 
If you used a different paragraph style for the Title and author names, you can check that those styles 
do not have outline levels set (Edit style > Outline and list tab > set outline level = None).

The page numbers can be set on the page styles. It would be common practice to define a different 
page style for some of the front matter. For example, you could create a Preface style with Left 
and Right pages and set those to have page numbers in Roman numerals and then the main page style 
could start with page 1 in Arabic styles. With a selection of page styles, each can have headers or 
footers selected or not, as you wish. I would typically have six or seven different page styles in 
a book in addition to a mirrored default page style.

To eliminate the dotted lines in the TOC, right click in the toc and select Edit Index. Select the 
Entries tab and select the Level for which you do not want the dotted lines. Then in the Structure 
line for that level, click on the 'T' box and a dialog opens below allowing you to select 'Fill 
character' = None. Then click OK.

hth,

Philip
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