Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 251)

Creating Documents Tables of Contents 231
Format the text of your table of contents
The format (appearance) of the table of contents is controlled by two tools of Nisus Writer Pro.
• The settings in the Configure TOCs dialog as explained and illustrated in Figure 262 below).
• The Paragraph Styles of your document’s Style Sheet explained in “Modify a style” on page 100.
Figure 262
The Configure TOCs dialog
Determine whether page numbers appear or not
1. Choose the menu command Tools > Table of Contents > Configure TOC Styles….
2. Choose the table of contents style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the
Configure TOCs dialog.
3. Check or uncheck Include page numbers.
4. Click Apply Changes.
Determine whether numbers follow a tab or not
1. Choose the menu command Tools > Table of Contents > Configure TOC Styles….
2. Choose the table of contents style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the
Configure TOCs dialog.
3. Check or uncheck Use tabs to align page numbers.
4. Click Apply Changes.
Set what appears when line breaks or tab characters appear in marked text
It might occur that line breaks and/or tab characters appear in text marked for the table of
contents. generally you would not want these characters in the table of contents itself.
1. Choose the menu command Tools > Table of Contents > Configure TOC Styles….
2. Choose the table of contents style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the
Configure TOCs dialog.
3. Check or uncheck Use tabs to align page numbers.
4. Click Apply Changes.
Set the paragraph style associated with each level of the table of contents
When you first generate a table of contents by choosing Insert TOC, Nisus Writer Pro generates
nine new Styles that were latent in your document. By default each of these styles is associated
with the corresponding level of your table of contents. You can modify the attributes of these styles
called TOC 1 though TOC 9. in the Style Sheet view of Nisus Writer Pro.
1. Choose the menu command Tools > Table of Contents > Configure TOC Styles….
2. Choose the table of contents style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the
Configure TOCs dialog.
3. Type or paste the character you want to appear in the table of contents in either or both of the
the text edit boxes to the right of
• Replace line breaks in marked text with