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Ok guys, thanks for your answers! I’ve followed your advice decreasing the right margin, giving the page number more room to fit on the line (and also I’ve moved the right-aligned tab position a little to the left). This setting solved the page number ’17’ properly, but just translated the problem to the page number ’63’:Eyal Redler wrote:Try decreasing the right margin. There is not enough room for the number to fit on the line without overflowing the margin.
You can try maybe adding some sort of whitespace characters to the end of the autotitles that are giving you problems, forcing them to be a little longer, and pushing the page number properly onto the next line. Otherwise, I'm not sure there is anything that can really be done.writerguy wrote:It seems that Mellel have problems placing text right aligned when the end of line is close to a reverse tab.
How can workaround this odd behavior with ALL my page numbers (and automatically) in my ToC?
In the current build 23 of Mellel 2.9 the reverse tab does stick if not moved too fast, most of the time -- but not always. In previous versions of Mellel it never stuck at the right margin, but inevitably went off the edge.tTo Donald: I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the elaborate procedure you've outline, if you drag a tab to the edge, it will just get stuck to it and not disappear... Does it work differently on your machine?
But shouldn't the number end up at the right end of the line below? That it doesn't is what I thought was a bug. But perhaps I have misunderstood how the right tab is supposed to work. (As I implied, I don't use this kind of set-up myself, because I think it makes the table of contents difficult for readers to scan).What I see here is that the reverse tab is positioned beyond the right margin and the number is positioned over it which is slightly strange (since objects after the margin should be ignored) but the main thing here is that the title + number are wider then the allowed line width (which is determined by the column width and the margins) and the line is therefore broken before the number which is moved to the next line, this is not really a bug.
Not really. Mellel tries to put the 63 in the line, it doesn't fit so it moves it to the next line. This means that the next line starts with the 63, and the 63 is placed at the beginning of the next line.nicka wrote: But shouldn't the number end up at the right end of the line below?
Ok, but do you think that's how it should work? It's a little unintuitive, when you want your TOC to have right-aligned page numbers.Eyal Redler wrote:Not really. Mellel tries to put the 63 in the line, it doesn't fit so it moves it to the next line. This means that the next line starts with the 63, and the 63 is placed at the beginning of the next line.
@Eyal: The settings (ruler, tabs, etc.) are for all the lines showed on screenshot (same style), to simplify things. It seems that I’m not the only one that didn’t get the reverse tab mechanics, because at the line with the 63, you have: left and right paragraph justification and a reverse tab, so we expect that the eol (with the 63) gets right alignment. In Microsoft Word just works as expected: placing the 63 at the most right with a reverse tab.Eyal Redler wrote: Not really. Mellel tries to put the 63 in the line, it doesn't fit so it moves it to the next line. This means that the next line starts with the 63, and the 63 is placed at the beginning of the next line.
So, according to the image, the margin is not all the way to the right and this means that there is not enough room for the number to fit. Move the margin to the edge and if the number can fit without overlapping the title, it will remain on the right side, otherwise, Mellel will put it in the next line.The settings (ruler, tabs, etc.) are for all the lines showed on screenshot (same style), to simplify things
Not exactly, as you can see in the image you will have a very similar problem if you tried the same (including the tab at the beginning of the title). It makes sense since the number cannot actually fit on the line without overlapping and MS Word moves it to the next line. (There is a slight difference in the way MS Word handles this since it doesn't consume the tab at the line end like Mellel)In Microsoft Word just works as expected: placing the 63
If the title is long enough to actually extend to the next line, like it does in the examples, then then reverse tab will catch.This is the original ToCs format I have to follow, note the right alignment when there is a double line title
So, how I can achieve this?
