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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0005975ScribusStory Editor / Text Framespublic07-Jul-05 13:0512-Jun-18 22:13
Reportermecirt 
Assigned Tocezaryece 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
StatusassignedResolutionopen 
PlatformAMD64OSLinuxOS VersionOpenSuSE 10.2
Product Version1.3.4 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0005975: Wish: generate TOC from paragraph styles
DescriptionThe current TOC editor unfortunately isn't very useful for me. I want to use Scribus to create book layouts, where text may flow between frames as adjustments are made. Thus, text headings (which appear in the TOC) can also flow from one frame to another, and marking a frame as a TOC item is not sufficient, because I do not know which frame a heading will end up in.

Therefore, I'd like to see the TOC generator functionality extended to be able to extract TOC information from paragraph styles - in particular, to be able to mark a particular paragraph style as "include in TOC", and then all paragraphs that get assigned this particular style (a Heading one) would get added to the TOC, with their page number included.

To my understanding, the current TOC generator is not able to do this.

/ Tomas
TagsNo tags attached.
Attached Fileszip file icon FindInTxtFrames Script & Example.zip [^] (11,168 bytes) 11-Jan-07 00:24

- Relationships
related to 0004484assignedcezaryece TOC generation: Several issues 
related to 0001371assignedcezaryece Considering writing plugin to generate TOCs, Indexes, and "Continued on pg ... " messages 
related to 0001773assignedcbradney Extra attributes on frames and documents 
has duplicate 0008796assignedcezaryece [feature request] more usable TOC 

-  Notes
(0018651)
janD (reporter)
08-Jan-18 22:03
edited on: 08-Jan-18 22:04

This is my most wanted feature too.
A Programm without Style-Based TOC-Generation is almost useless for longer or structured Publications.

(0018652)
rdevries (reporter)
08-Jan-19 07:27

I agree that it would be a great feature.
(0018656)
louisdesjardins (developer)
08-Jan-19 15:59

Great idea!

Same could apply to Index, through character style (word style?). What do you think?

I guess that from the programming point of view, once we have that tag possibility set for paragraph style, the path is cleared for extending the similar feature to other kinds of styles. Right?
(0018670)
rdevries (reporter)
08-Jan-20 11:07

Yes indeed. It also would be handy if you can use other kind of styles in your TOC.
(0018744)
janD (reporter)
08-Jan-27 17:35

Once we have a function to locate specific styles on a page, it should be no problem to generate indexes too.
The problem is: The feature seems to be not planned. Endnotes and index is "acknowledged", but it is not clear, if "our" feature (status "new")is coming, although I think that the index-Feature-functions should make a style-based TOC possible as well.
TOC is mentioned in the Scribus-Roadmap (1.3.9) but it is "done" (so it is the one we have now)
It would be good if someone could find out if a style-based TOC-generation is planned. (maybe for the 1.3.9 ?)
(0025303)
Thaddeus (reporter)
11-Jan-07 00:24

Here is a Scripter script that could be adapted to do a TOC. I wrote it to search for string across the entire document.
(0025320)
cezaryece (developer)
11-Jan-10 12:03

Style based TOC is under construction, see http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8796 [^]

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
07-Jul-05 13:05 mecirt New Issue
07-Jul-05 17:04 christoph_s Relationship added related to 0004484
07-Jul-05 17:04 christoph_s Relationship added related to 0001371
07-Jul-05 17:04 christoph_s Relationship added related to 0001773
08-Jan-18 22:03 janD Note Added: 0018651
08-Jan-18 22:04 janD Note Edited: 0018651
08-Jan-19 07:27 rdevries Note Added: 0018652
08-Jan-19 15:59 louisdesjardins Note Added: 0018656
08-Jan-20 11:07 rdevries Note Added: 0018670
08-Jan-27 17:35 janD Note Added: 0018744
08-Feb-05 19:06 christoph_s Status new => acknowledged
10-Mar-16 16:01 mhanski Relationship added has duplicate 0008796
11-Jan-07 00:24 Thaddeus Note Added: 0025303
11-Jan-07 00:24 Thaddeus File Added: FindInTxtFrames Script & Example.zip
11-Jan-10 12:03 cezaryece Note Added: 0025320
12-Jun-18 22:13 ale Assigned To => cezaryece
12-Jun-18 22:13 ale Status acknowledged => assigned



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