I have a table of contents formatted thus:
Preface......................i
Chapter 1...................1
Chapter 2...................2
and so on.
The problem I am experiencing is that the small roman numeral, i, in the
first line is placed further to the right than the arabic numbers for the
subsequent chapters. (The leader dots are formatted with a right tab stop at
5.11.) If I remember my college typography course correctly, I think this is
perhaps occuring because the i character has a smaller m size than the arabic
numbers. The difference is tiny, but our sharp-eyed editorial staff insists
that it be fixed.
Does anyone know of a way to get a the i to line up exactly (on the left
side of the characters) with the arabic numbers? I've tried messing with the
character spacing, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. (I'm using Word
2000.)

Can you change the tab alignment for the tab stop to right align for the line
in question?

"michalaw" wrote:

> I have a table of contents formatted thus:
> Preface......................i
> Chapter 1...................1
> Chapter 2...................2
> and so on.
> The problem I am experiencing is that the small roman numeral, i, in the
> first line is placed further to the right than the arabic numbers for the
> subsequent chapters. (The leader dots are formatted with a right tab stop at
> 5.11.) If I remember my college typography course correctly, I think this is
> perhaps occuring because the i character has a smaller m size than the arabic
> numbers. The difference is tiny, but our sharp-eyed editorial staff insists
> that it be fixed.
> Does anyone know of a way to get a the i to line up exactly (on the left
> side of the characters) with the arabic numbers? I've tried messing with the
> character spacing, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. (I'm using Word
> 2000.)
>

Good idea - I changed the tab stop for the line with the 1 (added .1), tp
bring the right edge of it closer to where the right edge of the i is.
It's definitely closer. I'll see if this gets past the editorial folks.
Thanks!

"Peter Ellis" wrote:

> Can you change the tab alignment for the tab stop to right align for the line
> in question?
>
> "michalaw" wrote:
>
> > I have a table of contents formatted thus:
> > Preface......................i
> > Chapter 1...................1
> > Chapter 2...................2
> > and so on.
> > The problem I am experiencing is that the small roman numeral, i, in the
> > first line is placed further to the right than the arabic numbers for the
> > subsequent chapters. (The leader dots are formatted with a right tab stop at
> > 5.11.) If I remember my college typography course correctly, I think this is
> > perhaps occuring because the i character has a smaller m size than the arabic
> > numbers. The difference is tiny, but our sharp-eyed editorial staff insists
> > that it be fixed.
> > Does anyone know of a way to get a the i to line up exactly (on the left
> > side of the characters) with the arabic numbers? I've tried messing with the
> > character spacing, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. (I'm using Word
> > 2000.)
> >

If you are constructing this TOC manually (and it sounds as if you are) and
using a left-aligned tab stop, you should be using a right-aligned one
instead (that is how the automatic TOCs are constructed).

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"michalaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:34509992-2CE7-453D-8060-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a table of contents formatted thus:
> Preface......................i
> Chapter 1...................1
> Chapter 2...................2
> and so on.
> The problem I am experiencing is that the small roman numeral, i, in the
> first line is placed further to the right than the arabic numbers for the
> subsequent chapters. (The leader dots are formatted with a right tab stop
at
> 5.11.) If I remember my college typography course correctly, I think this
is
> perhaps occuring because the i character has a smaller m size than the
arabic
> numbers. The difference is tiny, but our sharp-eyed editorial staff
insists
> that it be fixed.
> Does anyone know of a way to get a the i to line up exactly (on the left
> side of the characters) with the arabic numbers? I've tried messing with
the
> character spacing, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. (I'm using
Word
> 2000.)
>