TOC Style for Hybrid Heading Ones

[erinep23]

So, I am using the Advanced Print Madcap template. If you are familiar with this template, you know that Index and Glossary are using these sort of pseudo-Heading One styles. Well, because they are Heading Ones, they behave like Heading Ones in the TOC - but because they have no H2, H3 underneath, they look ridiculous. I want them to have leader dots and a page #. Now, my first inclination would be to change the heading level to two, right? But then that would screw up the TOC pane in the generated pdf. Anyone know of any other options?

[Lydia]

Hi, the MadCap Advanced Print Template that I have, creates a TOC with a black background. Can you tell which template exactly you are using?
In general, I would use a seperate heading style for the glossary/index and set the mc-pagenum-display to what you want/when you want to display page numbers.

[erinep23]

I'm using the same one you are using, I just had to change the background to white because some of customers live in 1984 and need to print out the pdf. I will try your suggestion, thank you!

[Lydia]

Ok, if I use those templates and build the target UserGuideA7x9, then I will get page number for the Index and Glossary:

pagenumbersIndexGlossary.png

So, I would look into these things:
- Are the Glossary and Index topics used that come with the template?
- Do the topics still have the original heading style? The original is h1.BackmatterHeadings.
- Did you change the style (h1.BackmatterHeadings) in your stylesheet? When checking this, be aware of the mediums as well. If you introduced a new one and/or use that for your target, it could change things as well. The mc-pagenum-display and mc-heading-level for the style and medium are critical here.

Hope, you'll find the problem soon, because it seems to work in the original project and so there should be a way to get this working for your setup.

[erinep23]

So - changing the style on my stylesheet to mimic the behavior of the MadCap template - which is really the "mc-heading-level" attribute - allows the Index and Glossary to be seen on the TOC with the page number intact, but then I'm back to my original problem, which is that my bookmark panel in Adobe Reader displays the Index and Glossary in level 4 heading. (See image 2). I would like it to maintain a Level 1 heading in the bookmark panel, and maintain a page number on the TOC within the doc. But that's impossible, isn't it?

[Lydia]

The mc-heading-level affects the print output only. It won't do something for the online output.
The online output depends on the (outline) TOC that you created in the TOC editor in Flare. At which level do the topics Index and Glossary sit in your TOC? If they are nested into a book, they won't come up at the top level (in online output). The mc-heading-level won't change that because it works on print output only.

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