List of Figures/List of Tables and Hanging Indents

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bm2i
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List of Figures/List of Tables and Hanging Indents

Post by bm2i »

I have an .htm page called List of Figures.

On that page, I inserted a List-of proxy.
List-of Proxy settings are:
Tag Name: P
Tag Class: Figure_center_bold
Stylesheet class for each generated entry: proxy_List_Style
Stylesheet class for proxy: (default).

Stylesheet Settings for p.proxy_List_Style
p.proxy_List_Style
{
margin: 0pt;
mc-leader-format: '.';
mc-leader-align: right;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
}

This is what I get:

Figure 1-1. This title is short..........................................1-1
Figure 1-2. This title is ridiculously long and let's pretend that
it breaks here............................................................1-2
Figure 1-3. This titles is almost as long but has a different issue.1-3

What can I do to create a list of tables that look like this instead (underscores added because i don't know how to show the spacing i want otherwise)?

Figure 1-1. This title is short...........................................1-1
Figure 1-2. This title is ridiculously long and let's pretend that
__________it breaks here..............................................1-2
Figure 1-3. This titles is almost as long but has a different
__________issue.........................................................1-3

i've attempted changing the proxy_List_Style settings:

text-indent
margin-left and/or padding-left

and all this does is shift all of the text to the right.


i've attempted changing the paragraph settings for the List-of Proxy (which nearly gets me the correct results except the first Figure 1-1 is pushed way left).

is there any help to be had? is there something blindingly obvious that i'm screwing up?

[and, if it matters for anyone: flare 10.2, windows 7 (64-bit), PDF output]
Nita Beck
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Re: List of Figures/List of Tables and Hanging Indents

Post by Nita Beck »

I believe what you need to set is the mc-multiline-indent attribute, although I'm not sure on what class of p you'd do that on. (Sorry, I just have a minute or two while waiting for a build to finish.) Check out these topics in the Flare 10 Help system:
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... tation.htm
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... nt_TOC.htm

I hope this at least points you in the right direction. Holler back if this isn't enough. Hopefully someone else will come along who can add more detail.
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bm2i
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Re: List of Figures/List of Tables and Hanging Indents

Post by bm2i »

no more detail needed (mc-multiline-indent was exactly what i needed).

is it wrong that this has brightened my day?

(thanks nita).
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