Change paragraph and character styles of generated list entries

See how you can change paragraph and character styles of generated list entries in Adobe FrameMaker.

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Introduction
Change the paragraph style of entries
Change the character style of entries

Introduction

In Adobe FrameMaker, you can change the look of entries in a generated list and index by modifying their paragraph styles.

You can also change the character style of any text appearing in a list and of all index page numbers created with the same marker type. For example, you could make all page numbers italic.

Note: If you create a new character style in the source document after you generate the list or index, you may have to use File > Import > Formats to import the character style into the generated list. This is necessary only if you use the new character style in a paragraph or marker that’s part of the list or index. If you created the character style before first generating the list or index, FrameMaker imports it for you into the generated file.

Change the paragraph style of entries

To change the paragraph style of an entry in a generated list, do the following:

In the list or index, display the reference page that contains the special text flow. Usually this is TOC for a table of contents and IX for a standard index.
Locate the placeholder paragraphs that have paragraph styles corresponding to the list or index entries. (For example, Level1IX is the style for the placeholder text for the first-level index entry, and Head1TOC is the style for a Head1 entry in a table of contents.)
Change the properties of the paragraph styles, such as indents and font size, and update the paragraph styles, so that they are available the next time you generate the file. The placeholder paragraphs show you how the entries will look.

Figure 1. Formatted placeholder paragraphs

Formatted placeholder paragraphsshowing how the entries look

Change the character style of entries

To change the character style of an entry in a generated list, do the following:

In the list or index, create a new character style and store it in the Character Catalog.
Choose View > Reference Pages and display the reference page that contains the special text flow.

In the paragraph whose style corresponds to the entries you want to change, do the following:

In a list, enter the character style between angle brackets (< >) before the text you want to change. To change back to the paragraph’s default font, enter <Default Para Font>. For example, you could define a format tagged ChapNumFont, and then use it to format chapter numbers in a larger font in a table of contents.

Figure 2. Reference page and resulting TOC
In an index, enter the character style name, between angle brackets (< >), to the left of <$pagenum>. For example, if IndexPgNum is a character style defined for italic page numbers in a standard index, you could use it to format just the page numbers in the paragraphs tagged IndexIX.

Figure 3. Reference page and resulting index

Tip: You can also change the character style of text that appears in a list or index by applying a character style directly to the building block rather than preceding the building block with a character style enclosed in angle brackets. Be careful not to apply the character style to the paragraph symbol.