: How to handle line-breaks in a table of contents with InDesign? I'd like to build up a table of contents following this layout: Level 01 sub-level 1.1

@Pierce403

I finally found a workaround for this InDesign TOC limitation.

The aim is to have a parent item on the same line than its first child. However, it seems that it's not possible to get rid of the line break using InDesign TOC styles.

So the workaround is to simulate a visal alignment by assigning a vertical offset in the parent's paragraph style. Then, left-indents or tabulations marks on the child's paragraph styles can be used to prevent any overlapping situations.

An other option would be to replace line-break by a tabulation after TOC generation, and to style the results. But the job will have to be made again after each TOC update, and for each TOC of your book if you have several.

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