(Dorico 5.1, Windows.) I’m trying to create a rudimentary table of contents:
However, the page numbers do not form a nifty column since their placements depends on the length of the title token:
How do I deal with this? If I use two separate text frames for the title and the page numbers I’m afraid I will have trouble aligning them horizontally…
As long as the frames have identical fonts and positions then they should match up. You can copy/paste frames to make sure.
If you keep only one tab in each line of the table of contents, you can click on the border of the enclosing frame to select it and set the Right tab stop property to the distance from the left edge of the frame to the right end of the second column:
Then the table of contents can look like this:
Thank you; I’m trying to follow your directions but I’m doing something wrong. The template is defined like this:
What am I doing wrong?
Your right tab stop value is much too small. Try making it almost as large as the width of the frame and see what happens.
Thank you very much, that’s it.
[Incidentally, I really did want to know what the ‘right tab stop’ property exactly was using Dorico’s documentation, but I utterly failed.]
To demonstrate how the tab stop properties of a text frame work, I entered the following text in a frame that is 6 inches wide. Each word is preceded by a tab character:
Then I set the left, center and right tab stops to 1, 3 and 5 inches, respectively. Now the text looks like this:
