Last week I wrote about how to display shorter chapter titles in a running FrameMaker head.
I work with several international authors who use a variety of accented characters in their text. The chapter titles in my Adobe FrameMaker documents are set in all caps, and don't need the accents. The table of contents is set in upper and lower case, and needs the accents. How do you reconcile that issue? Check out the Marker dialog box.
- Select a chapter title
- Choose Special > Marker
- Click the Edit button from the Marker Type list
- Type a descriptive name such as TOC Title
- Click Add
- Edit the Marker text to match what you want in the Table of Contents and click the New Marker button
When you are ready to generate a Table of Contents, don't. Create a List of Markers instead.
- In your book window, choose Add > List of > Markers
- Double-click your custom marker from the Don't Include list to scoot it over to the Include Markers of Type list
Everything else is exactly like creating a generated TOC, but the suffix will be LOM (list of markers).
Pretty cool. I use this technique whenever I need to modify the TOC entries from the source documents. Luckily it doesn't come up all that often in my work, but when it does, I love my LOMs!
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About the author: Barbara Binder is the president and founder of Rocky Mountain Training. Barbara has been a trainer for nearly two decades and has been recognized by Adobe as one of the top trainers in the world.